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Most Senators and Representatives stayed in Washington. One who hurried home was Iowa's New Dealing Senator Clyde La Verne Herring. Regarded as Iowa's best vote-getting Democrat, Clyde Herring stands in imminent prospect of defeat at the hands of long-faced Republican Governor George A. Wilson. Venerable George Norris planned to go back to Nebraska, if there was a lull in Senate work, to make a personal appeal for reelection. George Norris' job now is to head off front-running Republican Kenneth S. Wherry, automobile and furniture dealer and embalmer. Known in every part...
...haddock, eggs and butter, fried cakes cooked with brandy. Last week 2,250,000 Norwegians (out of 3,000,000) suffered from malnutrition. Hitler's Gauleiter, Josef Terboven, had flatly announced that he did not care if thousands of Norwegians starved. The Germans confiscated cattle, whale meat, the herring catch, potatoes. Starvation, as tragic as that in Greece, confronted the descendants of Vikings...
...Poles still resisting that, despite fresh slaughters each week, the occupying authorities had tried to set up a Polish puppet government to keep order. When no puppets could be found, the Germans released their rage in the volleys of firing squads. In Norway the invaders confiscated 80% of the herring catch. Living now on herring and seed potatoes, the Norwegians were told by Vidkun Quisling that next winter they will eat only bread made of fine sawdust and "peat flour...
...Herring May Speak...
...Network is hopeful that Edward P. Herring, Lecturer on Government, will be able to speak on the School of Public Administration, but as yet no definite arrangements have been made...