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...granting of war powers to the Government. Implicit in Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech, no less than in the news of war over London, was an acknowledgement that Churchill had been right. For six bitter, hog-ridden years he had pounded on his argument as tenaciously as Cato the Elder demanding the destruction of Carthage: that a rearmed and rearming Nazi Germany was a menace...
...peace, and that if the South is to rise, both races must rise together. He concludes that the tariff hurt the South more than Sherman ever did, that a northern economic occupation is now ending just as its military occupation once ended. From northerners, he asks only forbearance: Cato the Elder destroyed Carthage, he says, and planted it with salt, but he did not afterwards ride through Carthage and blame its poverty on the Carthaginians...
...Harrison, 68, onetime 1913-37) president of Southern Railway Co.; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Railroader Harrison was by avocation a scholar who: 1) researched U. S. racehorse genealogies; 2) published, under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer," a book Roman Farm Management, translations of agricultural commentaries by Vergil, Varro, Cato...
...road is a striking engineering achievement, marked by easy grades and wide curves, which seemingly tempt the average driver to "hit it up," for speeds of 60 m.p.h. and better were common until Highway Patrol Chief Ray Cato started to police the stretch...
From Los Angeles to Bakersfield, Calif, stretches the Ridge Route, a treacherous ribbon of curves and grades famed both for its scenery and its danger. After 51 motorists had been killed on Ridge Route in 15 months, Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California Highway Patrol decided on an ingenious method to cancel the carnage, put it into effect last week on a 62½-mile section of the Ridge Route from Castaic Junction to Arvin Road...