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...former Pennsylvania legislator, Elmer Holland (D), 48, was elected to an unexpired term in the House after a fiery campaign in which he promised to "deal firmly with the defeatists, the sowers of dissension . . . who are working with the Axis warlords to . . . hamper our country's war effort." Taking his pretty wife (a onetime secretary of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot) to Washington as his secretary, Elmer Holland started right in on a seven-days-a week study of Captain Joe's News and Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. Last fortnight, in his maiden speech...
...Patterson's editorials are always bluntly to the point. But the News's 2,000,000 readers were startled by a Patterson editorial blunter than usual: "Congressman Holland: You are a liar. Make what you like of that...
What Elmer Holland made of it was a full-dress speech repeating his charges in more vitriolic terms. Cried he: "Daily these publishers rub at the morale of the American people. Daily they sow suspicion. Daily they preach that we are a nation of fools, led by rascals into a hopeless struggle. Daily they wear at the moral fiber of the people, softening it, rotting it, preparing us for defeat...
...Kirkland B-21 KIR 5844 Hobbs, F. W., III '46, Adams D-23 ELI 0750 Hodgson, W. S. '43, Claverly 14 KIR 5695 Hoe. E. L. '45, Dunster E-24 ELI 1318 Hoffman, I. '45, Leverett F-23 KIR 1912 Hoffman, F. de '45, Lowell E-54 KIR 2090 Holland, D. T. '45, Adams C-47 KIR 2199 Holmes, J. '43, Eliot G-11 KIR 2863 Holton, F. D. '46, Leverett B-23 ELI 8475 Hood, F. C., II, '46, Adams B-27 TRO 2767 Hooper, G. '45, Eliot G-53 KIR 2856 Hornberger, J. C. '45, Lowell...
...trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...