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Show NEWS REVIEW Labor Act Is Effective; Weather Hits Corn Crop Verging on mental and political exhaustion after a bitter, bit-ter, two-day fight, weary senators voted 68 to 25 to override President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley labor bill. . . The action, sustaining a wallop- ing 331 to 83 house vote to pass the bill over the veto, came on the heels of a final presidential plea to Sen. Alben Barkley (Dem., Ky.) to muster all possible forces in the senate "to prevent this bill from becoming law." Opponents of the measure needed 32 votes to uphold the veto, and they waged a desperate, last-ditch : battle to attain their objective. Final result, however, was a smashing smash-ing defeat for Mr. Truman at the hands of the Republican-controlled congress. Highlights of a tooth-and-tongue opposition fight to delay the senate vote as long as possible in order to gain support was an all-night ses- I . i age crops and possibly buckwheat if seed is available. On upland farms, ponds and lakes overflowing their boundaries also will cut seriously into corn yields. All in all, a bumper corn crop is considered extremely unlikely, even With a favorable growing season up to October. Some authorities have begun to believe that the government's grain export program should be re-examined in view of conditions existing on the nation's farms at present. IKE RESIGNS: Goes Academic General of the Army Dwight D. : Eisenhower has resigned as army . chief of staff to accept the presidency presi-dency of Columbia university in ; New York, effective early next 1 year. His decision to step out as top man in the nation's military hierarchy hier-archy to take the "wrfMftTF academic r .p o s t I was announced " a statement ft t J by Maj. Gen. PNt Floyd L" Parks- j chief of the war JL?L department's X. public relations L? I C i W d i v i s i on. The ill statement s a id that Eisenhower Eisenhower accepted the Columbia Co-lumbia presidency presiden-cy with the approval of the President Presi-dent and the secretary of war. His resignation will become effective "at such time as his superiors may release him from active duty in the army." The man who mapped the strategy strat-egy which brought victory to Allied forces in Europe in World War H will retain his rank as a five-star general for life and continue to receive re-ceive a compensation of about $15,000 a year. Initial speculation on a successor to General Eisenhower as chief of staff centered on Gen. Omar N. W Bradley, now Vet- f erans' administra- A tion chief, ' who jL J commanded the " I army ground s ' i forces in Europe - ' during the war. k t y Other high-ranking & generals under con- &A fjd : sideration for the position were Gen. I Jacob L. Devers, army ground forces chief, and Lt. Gen. J. Lawton i Collins, chief of army public infor- mation. As president of Columbia, Eisen- i hower will be the successor to i Nicholas Murray Butler who retired ; in 1945 and is now Columbia's 1 president emeritus. The general 1 has also been elected a member of the university's board of trustees. |