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...Alaska, New Dealers hailed a straw in the wind. Chunky, young E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett ran as an all-out New Dealer for Tony Dimond's voteless seat as delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. He won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) by a landslide against one mid-road and one anti-New Deal opponent...
...businessman by asserting in a speech, at Yale University: "The role of government must be greatly reduced after the war. . . . But . . . there is far too easy an assumption on the part of many that we have only to strip off controls and we'll go right back to all-out peacetime operations without a hitch. There are two things wrong with that view. It won't be easy-and we can't go back...
...popular women's club lecturer in the mid-'30s he whacked Mussolini, the Liberty League, Republicans. As an all-out interventionist when World War II began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation...
...bouts follow intercollegiate rules and last for three 90-second rounds. The fighters use 16-oz. gloves, but make up for it with furious, all-out assaults. One night five knockouts were scored. The winner gets $5 in war stamps, the loser...
...Florence by rail. Prisoners' statements and intelligence reports indicate that Kesselring's 20 divisions in Italy are getting only 170 tons of supplies per day per division. While this is plenty during a lull, the Germans would need at least 200 tons per day per division if an all-out Allied blow forced them to rise up and fight. Still needed: the all-out Allied push, a seeming impossibility now, when reserves are few on the Italian front.* But if what Uncle Joe's pilots reported was true, if the German was being slowly bled to death...