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...toughen them morally as well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...
...until our defenses, some two years hence, will include an adequate air force and a highly trained field force armed with modern weapons. Incidentally, the provisions of the original Burke-Wadsworth Bill are approximately those suggested in my fifth point, and it is to be hoped that Congress will enact this measure in its original form...
...Congress should immediately enact legislation mobilizing the entire economic and military resources of the nation to meet the national emergency which is upon us. Such legislation . . . should enable . . . [the President] to have complete control over raw materials and to establish a system of priorities which would assure precedence in our industrial production to arms, munitions, and other essential military equipment...
...Anderson announced that seven years of penal servitude or a fine of $1,750 or both is now the penalty for any Briton caught "systematically" fomenting opposition to the war, but still permitted were mere "expressions of opinion." This week Sir John will ask the House of Commons to enact "A Bill To Make Further Provision and Punishment For Treachery," imposing death as the penalty for serious cases of spying. Detectives this week were busy trying to catch up with quislings who plastered northeast London with stickers urging everyone to listen to "the new British broadcasting station" on a wave...
...seacoast region famous for its arts and crafts. The Legong: a ceremonial dance in which two or three girls enact an incident from Hindu mythology...