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...planes over German positions for the best day's work in three months. To the wet, cold, tired doughfoot slogging endlessly up Italian mountains and across Italian rivers, it was a welcome but temporary sight. The weather would soon close down again, return the infantrymen to the dreariest, most discouraging fighting in Europe...
Robert Sherrod spent three months in the dreariest hole in northern Australia last year waiting for the Jap invasion to come (one story we're mighty glad he never did have to cover)-and this spring after his part in the fighting at Attu he shivered for ten more weeks in the Aleutians waiting to go into Kiska with the invasion that found the Japs were gone. (Last week Sherrod took off on still another battlefront assignment...
There, in Minneapolis, he made one of the dreariest speeches of his campaign. Twelve thousand white-collar workers and farmers heard him recite the woes of agriculture under the New Deal, which they knew as well, if not better, than he. While they waited for his cures, he promised to call an immediate conference of agriculture, labor, industry and consumers, "if I am elected." He promised to establish a system of continuing research into farm problems. That...
Even for a body so admittedly Bourbon as the Association of Manufacturers such an attitude is surprising. Through the dreariest days of the past winter, with the castles of Rooseveltism crashing down about our ears, the voices against the social reform side of the President's program have been distinctly gentle. Although the Roosevelt honeymoon may be coming to an end, the President's program for social security has met with cheering sympathy on all sides...
Because Fritz Kreisler packed up his fiddle and his ailing wife and sailed for Europe one night last week, a group of know-it-alls in New York started one of Depression's dreariest stories. They said the concert business was dead. Even an artist like Kreisler was unable to get engagements. He was returning to Europe with his purse limp and his pride hurt...