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...been a world trouble spot since antiquity. Here fabled Dido was consumed in flames. Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...
...spent defense money at a record rate. A war industry was launched which made itself felt in the life of virtually every U.S. citizen. Some of them felt it as unemployment, the victims of priorities; but most of them felt it as an unexampled prosperity. The Administration's Cato, Walter Lippmann, was moved to characterize 1941 last week as "this disgraceful boom...
...Harvard Freshman lineup: Thompson, g.; Forster, r.f.; Ortega, Hadley, Willis, l.f.; Cooke, Brown, Finbury, r.h.; Allen, ch.; S. Glidden, Miller, Ellis, l.h.; Cato, Osborne, r.o.; Apthorp, Bond, r.i.; Ripley, Carr, c.f.; Morgan, W. Glidden, l.i.; Makinson...
Following in the footsteps of Rome's elder Cato, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, speaking at the University of Michigan yesterday urged that nothing short of obliteration would rid the world of the evils of Naziism...
...primitive Latium to the shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...