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Members of U.S. Navy training units at Northwestern University petitioned National W.C.T.U. President Ida B. Wise Smith to undertake "a drive against the misconception that Navy men are intemperate," to "seek to discredit the popular simile 'reeling like a drunken sailor.' " Said President Smith, reassuringly: "We of the W.C.T.U. will be glad to help them defend their reputations...
...addition to this censorship of out-going news, the Germans had perfected their control over the news released in Germany, he stated, emphasizing that one of the basic aims of Nazi propaganda is to discredit democracy and the sincerity of men like President Roosevelt...
...undersigned," the petition reads, "in view of the menace to the victory of the United Nations occasioned by mob violence against Negro Americans and by the deliberate use of such incidents by Axis propagandists to divide the nation at home and discredit it abroad, respectfully request that you use the weight of your office to support Federal Anti-lynching legislation...
Last month, tired of solo performances, Ruth McGinnis accepted an invitation to compete for the New York State pocket billiards championship. First woman ever to challenge men in a major billiards tournament, she proved no discredit to her sex. As the tournament entered its homestretch last week, "the skirt" had won four matches, lost five. "I wish I could throw my leg over the table the way men do," said diminutive Miss McGinnis...
Last October, the short-lived Government of Prime Minister Arthur William ("Artie the Artful") Fadden fell. Australia's jumbled internal affairs, plus the growing pressures of World War II, left John Curtin little choice but to take the job or forever discredit himself. He took...