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...greatest war was the U.S. in for a siege of bitter feuding between President and Congress? It might be. Much depended on what was going on in the mind of Franklin Roosevelt as, day after day, he remained secluded from press and public in his military-secret hideaway...
...came running from the pond in the yard shouting: "Daddy, the fish are cooking." How Now, Old Mole? In London, a married woman was jailed for helping conceal her lover, a French deserter. She had hidden him for 16 months under her floor, in an 11-by-3 ft. hideaway. He was nabbed when he popped out, suspecting that three other men were around the house...
...Japs also need an intermediate anchorage where small vessels-the craft of infiltration by sea-can pause before a night sneak to Guadal. Last week U.S. planes hunted down a new Jap hideaway in the New Georgia group. Wickham Anchorage lies hidden behind a long, narrow, palmy, hook-shaped island. It is only 120 miles from the main Jap positions on Guadal. Though the approaches are tricky, good-sized vessels can hide there. Last week a group of Jap cargo ships did. U.S. dive-bombers found them and in two attacks sank four. They also found quite a few landing...
...thirty-odd people in our London office are looking forward to England's best Christmas since the blitz (it was in Christmas week 1940 that our office came nearest to being wrecked). Quite a few of them will probably spend it at the hideaway we rented for them out in Buckinghamshire and I hope rationing will let them celebrate with something a lot cheerier than dehydrated meat and boiled cabbage...
...does on his income. This is called the "victory tax." More truthfully, it is equality in democratic reverse. The Senate ignored entirely any surtax on luxury spending and the body as a whole once again has declined to levy taxes on State bonds. Large proportions of these incomes find hideaway refuge behind the skirts of the States to thumb their noses at the Federal Treasury...