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...Connally tried to laugh it off: "Is Webster's Unabridged Dictionary offered as an exhibit or appendix to the pending Resolution?" But neither he nor the Senate could laugh off the fact that the long-awaited Great Debate in the Senate had become a quibble...
Fruitcake. In Washington, OPA cringed at the syntactical intricacy of an order involving fruitcake, resolved to simplify it, finally came up with: "All commodities listed in Appendix A are those known to the trade as such, excepting therefrom such thereof, if any, while subject to an other regulation...
...staff of 100 are Germans, French, Italians and other nationals. In his leisure time he studies the life habits of seabirds. He hopes that the bank will be important after the war. But while the B.I.S. may somehow survive the war, its future is probably that of a vermiform appendix which may have to be removed...
Died. Hans Adolf von Moltke, 58, grandnephew of Wilhelm I's Chief of Staff, German Ambassador to Spain since Jan. 1; of undisclosed causes; in Madrid. He had recently undergone surgery for an ulcerated appendix. A Foreign Office veteran of pre-World War I vintage, he was Ambassador to Poland from 1931 until the German invasion...
Thirteen days later Rector was back on duty manning the submarine's battle phones. As souvenirs he had a handful of bent spoons and, preserved in alcohol, the only appendix known to have been removed undersea in enemy waters...