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Senate Foreign Relations Chief Tom Connally said he was ready to arm merchant ships. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox had already urged repeal. Utah's bald, easygoing Senator Elbert D. Thomas came out for repeal. Tennessee's pompous, vest-piped Senator Kenneth D. McKellar introduced a ten-line bill to repeal the Act. Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted that the prohibition against arming U.S. merchant ships would be repealed "after some fighting and scratching around...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Wallace H. Cole and Miland Elbert Knapp of the University of Minnesota told how they invited strapping, soft-spoken Sister Kenny to work in Minneapolis hospitals. They reported observing and helping her in treating 20 patients within two weeks after the onset of the disease. Results within two months...
...Senate steering committee had stalled about filling the job left vacant by the death of Morris Sheppard of Texas for several weeks, casting a longing eye toward Military Affairs' next to senior member, Elbert Duncan Thomas of Utah, who Is an all-out-aid-to-Britain man and an industrious student of military needs. But the rule of seniority is dear to the Senate: historians could count only two contemporary occasions when it has been upset. Now the Senators could not bring themselves to break the rule again...
...Elbert E. Ginn's letter from Stockton, Calif., in TIME, Feb. 17-what Jews are "inciting this country to war?" Does Bright Boy Ginn mean the same "Jews" who "incited" Germany to war against decency, honor and humanity, or the "Jews" who "incited" Italy to war against well-nigh impotent neighbors, or does he mean the "Jews" who "incited" Russia to war against Finland, or perhaps the "Jews" who drove Japan to war against China? Ginn probably reads too much Nazi propaganda. His letter mirrors only too clearly the . . . type of mind that slows up a country...
...ELBERT E. GINN...