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...committee recognized that food complaining is a chronic disease of the students and it congratulates the University on keeping down food prices and co-operating as much as they have with their group, but it declares that if the administration follows its suggestions it will help to prevent "recurrences of the recent movement for a strike' and the subsequent had publicity...
Drew Pearson, Washington Merry-Go-Rounder whose charges that the State Department is anti-Russian led the President to call him a "chronic liar," said that an Administration "Gestapo" had been tapping his wires. Government officials who had telephoned him, he declared, had since been confronted by their superiors with transcriptions of the conversations. The New York tabloid PM reported that Pearson's syndicator, United Features, had refused to allow him to reply to the President. PM published what it reported was a banned column, in which Pearson elaborated on the statements that had provoked the Presidential wrath...
...State Department's attitude toward Russia, had made statements that were a lie from beginning to end, had jeopardized United Nations unity, had committed an act of bad faith toward his nation. It might as well be said once & for all, continued the President: this columnist was a chronic liar...
Stern, silent President Juan Antonio Ríos of Chile has been faced since his election in February 1942 with a chronic political crisis. His problem: to appease refractory, quarreling politicians of nine parties who cannot agree among themselves on what they want. His solutions: recurrent Cabinet reshuffles. His results: none...
...Normal sexual intercourse is "altogether beneficial," but "a state of chronic low-grade sexual excitement ... is particularly undesirable for the hypertensive...