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...brothers have subsequently decided that Arroyo, a good friend of the U.S., was a Ferdinand-the-bull in the Peruvian war, is now showing signs of timidity in the war against the Axis. With other ins and outs in Ecuadorian politics, they are awaiting a possible blowup this week. Congressional elections will test the strength of Arroyo and goat-bearded old Julio Moreno, President of the Senate, who hopes to succeed him. The elections may also bring to a head the almost continuous political crisis following the peace pact with Peru...
Curtis President Walter D. Fuller, who suggested that the new Post policy would be considerably less anti-New Deal, was equally vague about the real reasons for the blowup. Said he: "It has been speculated that our differences rose from political viewpoints. That was not the case...
...make dead certain of lasting industrial peace during war's duration? The Smith bill, the club which Congress had fashioned to keep labor in good order, had threatened before war came to bring on a labor blowup. Mr. Roosevelt now had another scheme. At his signal, Administration leaders quietly put the bill away in a closet. Not letting labor forget that the bill was still handy and could be broken out again at a moment's notice, the President suggested that labor and management get together, decide among themselves how to keep the peace...
...case, Ukraine rains had been torrential for almost a month, and detailed descriptions poured through Europe's gossip centers of "an avalanche of unstemmed water, floating wreckage and drowned men, trees, livestock, and houses down to the delta." Berlin said that German artillery had foiled the blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers made their hasty way across the Dnieper. In their mop-up the Germans...
Next day, in an 18-hole playoff, while the gallery was still talking about Sam Snead's heart-breaking blowup that snatched the championship from him on the very last of the 72 holes, Craig Wood furnished the 5,000 spectators with a golf round even more dramatic. On that same 18th hole where an 8 brought tragedy to Snead, Wood, leading Nelson by one stroke, hooked his second shot. The ball struck a spectator flush on the temple, knocked him unconscious. Completely unnerved as State troopers carried the stricken man off to the clubhouse, Wood flubbed an eight...