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Unpatriotic is the mildest adjective possible for the pro-poll-tax Senators' use of the cherished right to filibuster. The tactics that made filmland's Senator Jimmie Stewart a hero in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" put real-life Senator Bilbo and his fourteen-odd accomplices in far more villainous roles. As vital Axis propaganda material they hold the center of the world stage. It is up to the American people to hiss them...
Abilene to Tizi-Ouzou. Commander of this hard, tough, if slightly bewildered army, undertaking the greatest military invasion in the history of the U.S., is Texas-born, Kansas-bred. Fourteen months ago, big, powerful Ike Eisenhower was only a colonel. Forty years ago, he was tending his old man's chickens in Abilene, Kans. This week he was in command of a hatful of crack U.S. generals, at least one admiral and all the expedition's allied ground, sea and air units. Under his shrewd, blue eyes was a country bristling with such names as Tizi-Ouzou, Bougie...
...Fourteen weeks of basic training with special emphasis on physics, math, and sciences would be given enlisted men chosen from Army camps and Navy centers. This would be accomplished at the colleges, probably following a 13-week conditioning period at camp...
High House in the last day stretch was Adams, which placed second in the previous week. Total sales in the leading House amounted to $90.95, far outstripping Winthrop, which dropped from its lead position of a week ago. Fourteen dollars provided the margin between the two, Show money went to Kirkland amassing $55.20 in the same period, while Leverett and Lowell followed in that order, both in the fifty-dollar group. Eliot House dug deeper into its pockets this time and came up with $7 more than last week...
...Fourteen days from keel laying to delivery date is indeed a record of which American shipbuilders can well be proud. This seems a far advance from the 47 years required to construct the U.S.S. Alabama. Originally intended as a storeship, her keel was laid at Portsmouth, Va. Navy Yard in 1817 but not until April 23, 1864 was she launched. A record of 47 years under construction...