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...reinforced frontier of Red Czechoslovakia, 18 of the 22 houses in the Bavarian village of Mödlareuth lay on the east side. A Vopos detachment swung into the village, and built a stout wooden fence, ten feet high, clear through the main street. Miller Wurziger's grain mill stood in the way, so the Vopos tore it down. Wurziger and his son jumped from an upstairs window of their house and dragged Frau Wurziger to safely through the pig sty. Of Mödlareuth's 18 East zone families, six have fled to the West, four "political...
With these results to consider, politicians began to revise their thinking about California. Earl Warren has dim prospects as a compromise candidate in a situation that seems more & more to be a straight Ike-Taft contest. California's more promising figure now is Knowland, who has the bark & grain of vice-presidential timber...
When shortages of Government-stored grain were first turned up five months ago, Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan pooh-poohed the Senate's investigation as "politics," a "fishing expedition," and "crackers thrown into the fan." Yet as the probe progressed, more & more cases of grain thefts by farmers and warehousemen were uncovered. And with each new case, Brannan had to boost his estimate of the money lost in his grain storage program...
When Brannan got down to facts & figures on shortages, it was the committee's turn to get mad. The Secretary, who had once said that the slight amount of grain that had vanished "could almost slip through cracks in the floor," revealed that in the past six years, no fewer than 972 shortages had been uncovered. Most of them (841) concerned Government grain stored on farms and involved a loss of $1,000,000, half of which has been recovered. The rest occurred in commercial warehouses, and involved much more. On such disappearances, said Brannan, the Government...
...self-appointed athletic coach of Columbus' asylum for the blind. Mainly the Album is a lesson in human affection, shrewd but not hard, done with a wonderful eye for idiosyncrasies carried with dignity, human follies borne with grace. That Author Thurber loves these people, their unmistakable Midwestern American grain, is clear on every page. Plain folk have never been more gracefully praised...