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...first time in her pious life, plump Princess Juliana turned up at a Sunday football game in Amsterdam last week-to show her nervous countrymen how to be calm in a crisis. To show that the crisis was passing, the Army ordered that monthly four-day leaves be resumed after two weeks of complete mobilization...
Died. Elmer Mustard, 67, four-day Fire Commissioner of New York City; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He succeeded Commissioner John J. McElligott, who retired, then changed his mind...
Under the cobalt-blue ceiling and fantastic chandeliers of the Department of Labor Auditorium, the bustle and fidget of over 2,000 young people settled to a whisper. The members of the American Youth Congress, assembled in Washington for a four-day citizenship institute, "a monster lobby for jobs, peace, civil liberties, education and health," came to order. A. Y. C.'s adopted mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sat placidly in the second...
...that was before Finland. Last week the defense picture completely changed. The General Staff poured troops back into Bessarabia and rushed construction of border fortifications. King Carol took Premier George Tatarescu and most of his Cabinet by special train on a four-day Bessarabian inspection trip. In Chisinau, capital of the province, leaders of the Rus sian, Ukrainian and German minorities were brought around to meet His Majesty. They swore : "We pledge our lives for our beloved Rumanian fatherland...
...same tactics worked at Suomussalmi, past which a Russian column was thrusting across Finland's narrowest part toward Uolu on the Gulf. In a four-day battle the Finns cut the roads leading from Suomussalmi church to the frontier, then stormed into Suomussalmi village, routed Russian tanks, and trapped a Russian force they estimated at 10,000. If the Finns could prevent this force from working in conjunction with the columns to the north and south, Russia's Bothnian threat would be ended and the lost columns could be starved, frozen or carved to death...