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...over. It grew colder. Major Bill Rosson, of Eugene, Ore., whose men were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That's for me, Guglielmo Rosson...
...want to know what we had in those bags, Doc? Well, we had nicknames, for one thing. A well turned nickname was always good for a belly laugh. There once was a Lieutenant named House. We called him Flop. Not to his face, of course, but he probably got the ideas, and we certainly did. It was not too funny, but good for our battered Egos. Then there was one from Old Nassau (a fine example of the manic depressive among College Men At War) whom we thought should be called Tiger...
...believed in liberty as well as property, morals as well as interests, rights as well as powers. The Constitution may not have been written, or even ratified, by all the people referred to as "We, the People," in the Preamble. But the men who made it believed in the doc trine that there are many "rights" anterior to government, and that these rights belong to all the people. Even without the Bill of Rights, which was added as an after thought largely at the demand of Thomas Jefferson, the Constitution guaranteed many liberties beyond the "right to property...
...Doc Savage, the Bruin tailback and sparkplug, made most of the difference between the teams, being personally responsible for the first two scores, although the third came after he had been forced to retire with a leg injury...
...last definite vestige of a foreign policy which this nation has exhibited was the enunciation of the Monroe Doc trine. Since then, to the day of Pearl Harbor, our foreign policy has been makeshift . . . and opportunist. It has been hoping for the best while taking no measures to prepare for the worst. From the Presidency of Mr. Monroe until this day the Monroe Doctrine has been accepted by Great Britain. . . . Great Britain was our unacknowledged ally in the preservation of the two Americas from foreign aggression...