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Senate Foreign Relations Chief Tom Connally said he was ready to arm merchant ships. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had already urged repeal. Utah's bald, easygoing Senator Elbert D. Thomas came out for repeal. Tennessee's pompous, vest-piped Senator Kenneth D. McKellar introduced a ten-line bill to repeal the Act. Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted that the prohibition against arming U.S. merchant ships would be repealed "after some fighting and scratching around...
...Washington has conducted a reckless campaign to the end of getting this country into the European war. We have been told, without any evidence, that America stands in greater danger today that at any previous time in her century and a half of history we have been warned, in bald assertion, that Britain was our first Ine of defense against the German, and that if, Britain fell, Hitter would straightway be on our shores. We have been startled with declarations, unsustained by any facts, that in 30 or 60 days we would face the hour of supreme crisis--only...
...week for Benito Mussolini. For months the world had been unmercifully kidding him and his folding armies. He looked very bald and worn and old. But now he had a chance to stand beside his good friend, the world's most fearsome citizen, on the Russian Front. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had talked for three days. To outdo their enemies Benito listened to Adolf for five...
...cartoonist who helped slay the stereotyped two-line gag was a bald, weedy-looking New Jerseyite named George Price, who last month rounded out his tenth year as one of The New Yorker's most delirious funnymen...
...some cases, tightness of materials may be as much a matter of maldistribution as of actual shortage. Bald, earnest Stacy May, chief OPM statistician, has tried for months to get permission from his bosses (notably Production Chief John Biggers) to make his own survey of manufacturers' requirements and inventories. Only with such information could OPM work out a rational allocation of tight materials. So far May has not succeeded, and OPM is ignorant...