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Editorialized the St. Louis Post-Dis patch, which backed Franklin Roosevelt in 1940: "Messrs. Dewey, Bricker, Taft, Vandenberg and other Republican hopefuls have been silent, ambiguous or restrained. . . . Yet no Missouri questionnaire goes out. . . . Is Willkie running so far ahead of the field for the 1944 nomination that Missouri Republican leaders . . . feel he must be killed off politically before that time...
...Nazis from his pulpit. He has written many a biting pamphlet distributed by the Danish underground. His last defiant gesture before his arrest came a few weeks ago when he flatly refused to obey the Nazi edict to cease prayers for the persecuted Norwegians. Wrote Munk: ". . . I intend to dis obey. . . . Danish clergymen take an oath on the Bible, but not yet to the Foreign Secretary. . . . I feel bound to my Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn to fight for. If for fear of men I should...
Medical knowledge of prevention is even more meager. About all doctors know is that: 1) flies, mosquitoes, and perhaps rats can carry the virus; 2) healthy human carriers are common; 3) the dis ease is almost certainly transmitted through the mouth as well as the nose; 4) children's tonsils should not be removed during hot summer months...
...guffawed the Professor in the fluent style of prose which had made his treatises on relativity and the sixth dimension a delight to read, "I likes dis mode of--life." ("What phraseology," murmured La Flange; "Divine," shrieked Laverne...
...anti-De Gaulle faction in Algiers included an unsavory lot: thousands of ex-Vichyites, many recently "escaped" from the homeland; royalists; big industrialists who had always feared the Republic more than the Nazis; antidemocrats like Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the peanut-oil king, who helped install Giraud, then was dis missed from an important liaison post, is now making overtures to the De Gaullists. But the classic example was Marcel Peyrouton, the opportunist who as a Vichy minister signed Charles de Gaulle's death warrant and later was plucked from exile to become the Giraudist Governor General of Algeria...