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...Georgia furnished last week's biggest Democratic primary news. At Senator Walter George's suggestion, John Garner avowed his willingness to enter the primary. New Deal Governor E. D. Rivers, counted to swing his hand-picked delegates for Roosevelt, stayed in his shell. If he did call a primary, results would furnish the best Southern test of New Deal v. Old Deal Democrats...
...exemption and offers of endowment gifts, General Beaver runs a strictly profit-making institution. His teachers spend their vacations recruiting pupils, get part of their pay in commissions. His pupils pay $1,044 a year, which includes eight uniforms, tuition, board and all expenses. They are required to furnish bedding, an indelible ink outfit (for marking clothes) and a Bible. The school fee includes spending money: $1 a week for cadets averaging 90% in their studies down to 25? for those below passing...
...According to union figures, this sum included $25,000 for a new house, $12,000 to furnish it, $1,700 to keep up the garden, $16,000 to pay Mr. Petrillo's income tax, $25,000 for an armored limousine and bodyguards. Discovering that nobody cared to shoot...
...reach other important tentacles of the Allied economic strangling plan. Starving Spain needs wheat. Great Britain, having cut Generalissimo Franco off from his German ore markets, will give him foreign exchange to feed his country from South America by buying Spanish copper, iron ore, mercury and lead. Yugoslavia now furnishes Germany with copper (from British-French-owned mines), Turkey might furnish chromium. The Allies will buy these countries' exports of these metals, also taking Yugoslavia's entire export prune crop, Turkey's entire surplus of figs, grapes and some tobacco, to sweeten the deals...
...weather and valor and Russian blunders are not enough, if Finland fails, if Scandinavia has to fight, its three nations can muster between them less than 1,000,000 men, of which Sweden would furnish more than half. The Swedish Air Force has some 250 planes, Norway's and Denmark's less than 100 each. Sweden has a small but efficient Navy of six cruisers, three pocket battleships, five coast defense ships, one aircraft carrier, eight destroyers, eight torpedo boats, 16 submarines and 31 motor torpedo boats. Neither Norway nor Denmark has anything that might be called...