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Died. Hatcher Hughes, 64, one-hit playwright (HellBent for Heaven, 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winner), who taught playwriting (among his pupils: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) at Columbia University; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...Bill Jeffers tackled the chaotic Rubber Scandal this week in the hellbent, direct-action way he has run the Union Pacific Railroad...
Canada got a glimpse last week of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler's Military Affairs subcommittee, flying hellbent north on a rush-rush, hush-hush mission to learn the "truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General...
After these first landings, far greater forces (estimated at 15,000 men) landed unopposed on the neck of Thailand, at Cape Patani and Singora. From there they hurried hellbent, by rail and road, with artillery, tanks and dive-bombers, due south toward Alor Star on the west coast. The British admitted falling back in the face of this heavier assault...
Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for Castillo's scalp, insisting that the Acting President was hellbent for dictatorship. Only two papers approved the firing: Razón, arch-conservative organ of Castillo's own party, and the Nazi-subsidized Pampero. Ramón Castillo sat tight. If he gets away with ousting the Council, he may decree that December's elections in Buenos Aires Province be held under provincial, instead of Federal, law, thereby insuring a fraudulent victory for his own Conservative Party...