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Algiers. Two U.S. Ranger officers and a newspaperman, scrambling ashore with the first assault force near Fort Sidi-Ferruch, 15 miles west of Algiers, were met by a friendly French officer. Twenty minutes later, still dripping with surf, they were inside the fort shaking hands with the garrison commander, who showed them instructions received the previous evening for cooperating with the Americans...
Edward W. Garrison '43 of New Castle, Delaware and Kirkland House has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Naval Science Bulletin, monthly publication of the Naval Science Department which makes it initial appearance early next week...
...Reported the United Press: "Increases in the land garrison and arrival of heavy fleet reinforcements have swelled the white population from 15,000 to 50,000. Women and children are being evacuated. Governor Pierre Boisson ordered them to leave, remembering how civilians clogged the roads during the German invasion of France. A serious housing shortage has arisen. There is plenty to eat, [but] there is no gasoline. Huge piles of cotton, tanned hides, coconuts, coffee, dried fish and tons of vegetable oils are rotting in the warehouses or on the wharves. Planters fear they will lose fortunes...
...University of Wisconsin Law School there remain only five of its 13 full-time professors, only 92 of its 400 students; Dean Lloyd Garrison is absent as counsel to the War Labor Board...
...horrified to think it could exist in the U.S. when Britain had already forbidden it. Friends warned her against entering the slave States where her Abolitionist opinions were known. She ignored the warnings, argued her way firmly, courteously through the South. Later on in Boston she met William Lloyd Garrison ("I thought Garrison the most bewitching personage I had met in the U.S."), spoke vigorously at an Abolitionist meeting which was in danger of being mobbed. She was indignant to think that the "pirate colony" of Texas might be admitted to the Union, condemned the admission of Missouri ("a nest...