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...little people are quite willing to see the Bill of Rights in abeyance, Congress in limbo, themselves regimented, man, woman and child, for all-out effort toward all-out Victory. In plain words, the little people are fighting...
Anyone who came away from last weekend's game with the Blue, left with the opinion that Harvard had outplayed but not outscored Yale. For at least two thirds of the game the Crimson held the upper hand, yielding only at the end when all-out efforts to break a 2 to 2 deadlock backfired and gave the Elis an easy goal...
...American war effort has suffered long enough from dead wood at the top. Of Washington's many parasites the first to go should be the multi-millionaire, Houston banker, and Secretary of Commerce, Jesse Jones. While the country has been girding itself for an all-out war effort, Mr. Jones has been craftily amassing power for the sake of power until now he is the third most powerful man in Washington with little to show for his ability as a war leader. Already, of incalculable harm to the defense effort has been his knuckling under to the special interests...
...official public alarm shall be the sounding of sirens, and factory whistles designated by the Chief Air Warden, or the extinguishing of street lights, which ever occurs first. At 10.30 P. M., the official "all-out" will be sounded on sirens and factory whistles and street lights will be relighted and all traffic and business will resume its normal procedure...
...division. Tall (6 ft. 1 1/2 in.), husky (some 200 lb.), black-haired Bob Nathan worked his way through University of Pennsylvania as a tutor, reporter, Real Silk stocking salesman, got into defense work via the Department of Commerce and National Resources Planning Board. No armchair thinker, he was an all-out expansionist even in the early days of defense; helped get the "Victory Program" adopted. Even Old Dealers think him one of the best young Government career...