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...down to harmless generalities. But in five days of dull mumbling and set-piece speeches, only one bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were set on giving the Resolution some teeth. Notable hecklers: Florida's Claude Pepper and three of the four "B2H2 boys...
...office staff of four is working twelve to fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, to keep abreast of the flood of new subscriptions...
...Fourteen Jap ships sunk, plus 14 or 15 supply-laden barges. Two hundred and fifteen Jap planes destroyed in the air, more on the ground. Cost: 59 Allied aircraft, one warship. That was the score of two weeks' action on General MacArthur's new Pacific front...
Fifty-three years ago Brazil broke its official ties with Catholicism, opened the country to other faiths. Two generations of Protestant missionary work have gained about 1,000,000 adherents to various churches: Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Pentecostal. Fourteen-fifteenths of the work goes on in a 300-mile-wide coastal zone extending from Rio Grande do Sul to Para; the tiny remainder lies in the vast inland rural areas...
...Fourteen months ago 22-year-old Oberleutnant Hans Peter Krug, escaped from a Canadian prison camp, got in touch with Stephan, who gave him money and two days' food and lodging. Recaptured in San Antonio, Krug blandly served as star witness against Kamerad Stephan. The District Attorney did not ask the death penalty. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, however, ruled stiffly that would-be traitors needed a lesson, sentenced Stephan to hang. Three times the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case...