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...voice which would have made even the Gettysburg Address sound like the chant of a tobacco auctioneer, the clerk of the U.S. Senate droned out the message which President Truman and his aides had worked over so long and earnestly. Prosaically spoken, the words dealt with a passionately debated issue: How can a nation defend its freedom against those who would claim freedom's privileges in order to destroy freedom...
Like Bunker Hill & Gettysburg. When they sailed from Norfolk, Va. the marines had never heard of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who had by then taken over the division, had been given almost no time for practice, planning and staging. On Aug. 7, 1942, the marines went ashore on Guadal, without meeting resistance. The only first-day casualty was a leatherneck who cut himself trying to open a coconut...
...plenty of guts. They held their ground until, in November, the resurgent Navy under "Bull" Halsey finally drove the Jap warships out of the area and put 2nd Marine Division and Army reinforcements ashore. Among Americans, Guadalcanal has become a household word, as familiar as Bunker Hill and Gettysburg...
...defense of capitalism, Brad Taylor of Gettysburg, cited the United States present high standard of living. He said that although America's population is only 1/16 of the world's total, the average output of its industries to more than 1/2 of this total...
Bruce Lane, the first speaker for the affirmative in the debate against Gettysburg, predicted that there will be a depression in the not too distant future, and added that nationalization is the only way to prevent it. His partner Helmut Furth, stressed the fact that the country's natural resources are in a state of decline and that the monopolies are wasting these resources...