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...Douglas MacArthur's finest officers, one of the U.S. press's crack war correspondents. Slim, hard-flying Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George was taken to a hospital where he died soon afterward. His comrade in the grim battle for Luzon and the last-ditch fight on Bataan, Correspondent Melville Jacoby of TIME & LIFE (see p. 55), was killed instantly...
...Free speech is very sacred here in Concord, especially in time of war. In wartime, we are told that the constitution can be violated, but we don't accept that doctrine, and we are going to fight to the last ditch...
...picture which the Crimson paints inevitably emphasizes the negative aspects of pacifism. However, although they balk at ditch-jumping, the C.O.'s at Harvard are willing to pull their load in the search for better understanding among the peoples of this country and the world. Members of the Association are engaged actively in such work as the Council on Post-war Problems, settlement-house work, social work-projects of various sorts, Volunteer Civil Defense Work, etc., etc. We feel we owe a debt of gratitude to the Crimson for its service in helping to remove the misunderstanding which makes...
Armed with wooden machine guns and four munitionless 75's, the Unit, undaunted, rallied nearly 100 volunteers for a last ditch stand against the enemy troops of the Massachusetts State Guard, who had landed on Cape Cod and were advancing on the Capitol...
...less devious method, of course, would be to repeal the 1934 Silver Purchase Act and let silver's price find its commercial level-perhaps as low as 15? an ounce. Mining State Senators last week were preparing a last-ditch defense of their 71? racket. As though to prove they had lost none of their nerve, they even demanded priorities on mining equipment to meet the new war-industry demand for silver-at twice the already artificial market price. Hard-hitting American Metal Market (trade organ) found a word for it in O. Henry: "The legitimate ethics of pure...