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Almost since the first shovel of dirt was turned in the emergency construction program the Quartermaster Corps has been under fire. Bereft once before of its construction functions, during World War I, it had got them back, in 1920 (by recommendation of General Pershing), since then has had lots of experience building barracks, officers' quarters, CCC camps, flying fields...
...case. Before him last week appeared Lawyer Goldstein with his plaintiff and four of his Lordship's published works,* proceeded to review the offending books. Said Critic Goldstein, Philosopher Russell's writings are "lecherous, salacious, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, atheistic, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful and bereft of moral fiber." Furthermore, he roared, the Earl had run an English nudist colony, gone in for salacious poetry, winked at homosexuality...
...miles, smashed through Belgium, through Mons and down the Oise, occupied 14,000 square miles of France, Belgium and Luxembourg. The French plan of an offensive through the German centre had been abandoned. At Paris, in the headquarters of General Joffre, commanding the French forces, the shock had bereft most officers of any plan except continued retreat...
...Washington's Naval Hospital, death from heart disease came suddenly last week to Herman Oliphant, 54, grey-locked, hollow-eyed general counsel of the Treasury Department. It left the Treasury bereft of the most earnest economic experimenter remaining there since the withdrawal of the late Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Herman Oliphant, a law scholar before he was a financier and a liberal before he was a lawyer, was the prime advocate of the Undistributed Profits Tax, written into the tax law of 1936. All but the bare principle of that tax, which Franklin Roosevelt loved...
...United States can ask the League of Nations to transfer the Palestine mandate to them and our government, if not entirely bereft of its senses, will hand it over tied up with a blue ribbon and a courteous note of thanks for favors rendered," the newspaper said...