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Tonight at our weekly union meeting a motion was made commending Senator B. K. Wheeler for his stand on convoys and the drift toward war. It was passed by a large majority. The men who passed it are Americans born, or naturalized. Not Reds, Blacks, or Browns, just plain workingmen...
...tank park. In column-of-three, the tanks edged precisely into place, each centred over a white stake. Major Kengla repaired to the orderly tent, saw that his men had hot coffee and a delayed lunch. He fidgeted. Everybody in Company D fidgeted. Sergeants made up excuses to drift into the orderly room, drifted out unsatisfied. Then the word came, first t'6 Major Kengla, and then to the company...
...caused by high speed planes flying at 15,000 feet. Moisture forms from the plane's exhaust and also from the friction with the air. A fleet of planes would make a blanket of clouds of considerable substance, while individual planes form wisps which grow in size as they drift...
...later, to repay $700,000 it owed to the C. & O. System, C. & E. I. got a loan from RFC. To keep the loan's purpose from ICC eyes, the Van Sweringens had to resort to further camouflage. At length, in 1933, C. & O. let its secret ward drift into the courts...
...staunch as his six-foot, two hundred pound frame are the isolationist convictions of Representative Ham Fish, who stated in an exclusive interview in Washington last Thursday that he would not be trailing behind in the fight for peace despite the drift of public opinion against him and the bush-bush policy of the Eastern press...