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...their lives. Sam lived on one side of Sandy Springs' main drag, Moore on the other. This year the two sides of town decided to join under one government, and Smith and Moore were both put up for mayor. After two Lincoln-Douglas debates ("once on the depot platform and the other time down at the spring"), each got 100 votes. The election committee knew better than to hold another ballot, so Smith and Moore became co-mayors...
...British Ministry of Information, Trafalgar Square (Nelson's statue not damaged), St. Paul's Cathedral (high altar smashed by falling masonry, but the lead rafters held up the roof), Memorial Hall of the University of London (10,000 books destroyed, including German and Jewish collections), Dudley House (depot for U. S. gifts, where 1,000 lb. of Red Cross wool was buried under rubble), Waterloo Station, Battersea Park (near a main powerhouse). Wellington College in Berkshire was hit, its headmaster killed. The Archbishop of Canterbury revealed that Lambeth Palace, his London residence, had been demolished several days prior...
When the Cleveland Indians reached Detroit last week for a three-game series with the Tigers, they were met by hundreds of youngsters, swarming through the Union Depot, jeering "Cry Babies-Cry Babies!" At their hotel, the suffering base-bailers were further plagued by the strains of Rock-a-Bye Baby serenading them from the streets below...
...auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...
...H.S.U. debate with Professor Elliott, Mr. Harper Poulson charged that the British Government was in the same category as the German Reich as a violator of individual rights. In proof he told a story of how a parliamentary inquiry had foiled the Government in an effort to depot him from Britain because of his criticisms of British policy while working on a student publication. The facts may be an index to Mr. Poulson's arguments. The facts appear in Hausard's Commons Debates, Vol. 344, pp. 1921-22, 2366. Mr. Poulson had been admitted to Great Britain as a student...