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...Senate, Tom Connally of Texas quietly withdrew his plant-seizure, anti-strike bill, but in the Naval Affairs Committee of the House there was a final lashing around before the Vinson bill (to wipe out overtime wages for hours under 48 a week, freeze existing labor-management relations, limit war profits) was tabled by a hairline 13-12 vote. The debate was bound to go on, but possibility of immediate action...
When the Chicago Sun's application was voted down, under the new bylaws, the Tribune withdrew. (Cissie Patterson's application was thrown out, 514-to-242.) Colonel McCormick boasted that he had beaten the Sun's application by a "tactical move." Since he was also re-elected to A.P.'s board of directors, he considered that he had won a triumph...
Jonathan Wainwright's soldier's eye saw that the end was near. From the shores of the Bay he withdrew his naval forces, sailormen and Marines of the 4th Regiment (evacuated last November from Shanghai) to Corregidor. He tried to strike one last blow. Against a Jap breakthrough on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula he threw a corps in desperate counterattack. It was too much. The glassy-eyed soldiers went forward like men in a dream, so exhausted that many of them could hardly lift their feet, and the Jap mowed them down. The flank folded...
Observers, long expecting this move, saw its beginning last week in Illinois, where three Lewis sub-chieftains suddenly withdrew from the State's federation of C.I.O. unions. One of them was Ray Edmundson, C.I.O. regional director, who declared: "Hereafter I shall devote every ounce of energy at my command [to] . . . Lewis, whom I consider one of the greatest labor leaders of all time...
...military tribunal were to seek out the responsibility for this tragedy, it would find guilty the man who was directly responsible for the discipline of the first Japanese troops to enter the city: their commander, Lieut. General Prince Yashuhiko Asaka. Without recourse to tribunal, the Japanese High Command withdrew him from Nanking...