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...Moscow, Juho Paasikivi. Chief demands: 1) immediate construction of the promised railroad across Finland to Sweden; 2) an economic agreement at once. If either the Allies or Germany invaded Sweden, it was almost certain that Russia would further "adjust her frontiers" with Finland, push up to Sweden's elbow...
...Some older natives feel that the present population per square mile in Montana is just about right for free elbow room, that Nature intended it for range country, and rejoiced when in 1937, against all predictions, the range grass again took over the abandoned dry-land farms. The younger generation, scornful of distance, thinks nothing of hightailing it over mountain roads that give tourists the jitters, to a Saturday night dance, 60 or more miles away...
...board rates are so high that if the Halls had no guaranteed patronage, they would certainly have to shut up shop under outside competition. An efficiency expert and a dietitian can clean up this mess, if the University will hire them and then give them plenty of elbow room to roll up their sleeves and go to work. Now that the undergraduates know exactly why the food is bad and the charge for it outrageous, the Administration cannot go on letting so much of the board rate go up in incinerator smoke...
...American Community Chest luncheon Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king...
Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photo graph of King George VI at his elbow. It was "grossly indiscreet," said Mr. Plumley; thereupon read from Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, which says: ". . . No person holding any office of profit or trust . . . shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign...