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...House debated a $707 million Agriculture Department appropriation. Up rose Missouri's knob-nosed Clarence Cannon, errand boy for the Farm Bloc. The Appropriations Committee had already lopped $100 million for farm incentive payments off the bill. Representative Cannon, suspecting the Administration might use other Agriculture Department funds for such subsidies, and sticking tight to the farm-bloc alternative of higher prices, offered an amendment barring all incentive payments. The House, whipped into line by the farm lobby, approved...
...fire, the Monitor refrained from running pictures, or horrifying descriptions of the victims' screams, but did give Page One display to the story and printed all victims' names. And the Monitor today, as it never did in World War I, covers war news straight. Mentioning casualties and cannon in its clean, unruffled prose, it realistically hides no brutal war facts from its sensitive readers' eyes...
...Russian front there was a kind of panting quiet. Thaws made a great swamp of the yawning land. From Leningrad in the north to Novorossiisk in the south, on fields where rusting cannon and broken tanks marked the course of old battles, the two armies faced each other, waiting for the earth...
...symbol of success in unselfishness in the Army is the timeless, ever-present devotion of the good noncommissioned officer and the officer toward their men. The symbol of greatest efforts and infinite pains is in the faithful, ardent, forceful, continuous training of every man to be a soldier, not cannon fodder...
Driving over rocky cliffs southeast of E1 Guettar under heavy fire from hidden German 88-millimeter cannon, the American feet soldiers were advancing due cast toward Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's positions on the Wadi Akarit only 38 miles beyond...