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Anybody dozing at last week's Congressional tax hearings (an easy feat) might have picked up some startling impressions between cat naps. Testifying before the House Ways & Means Committee was the Treasury's neat, mild-mannered General Counsel Randolph Paul. In view of the Treasury's last-ditch opposition to the famed Ruml income tax plan, some of Mr. Paul's statements were enough to make anyone sit up. Said...
Running the Axis show, according to Rome radio, was Major General Walther Nehring, one of Germany's smartest tacticians. Under Nehring was an army estimated at 10,000 men, strengthened daily by airborne reinforcements and supplies. Hitler planned a grim last-ditch fight...
...slash profits 25%, 50%, or maybe more. The manufacturer counter-proposes. If all the high cards belong to one side, the game is over fast. Usually the businessman asks for a hearing before the top Washington board. Since Washington is the last chance, most contractors go armed with an arsenal of facts, ready for a last-ditch fight. They usually get it. One small steel company spent two twelve-hour days arguing with the top board, got only an invitation for a return visit...
...year-old President Grant has long been ill, most Mormons decided that this revelation came from the man who read it to the conference-First Counselor J. Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Hoover Ambassador to Mexico and a last-ditch isolationist before Pearl Harbor. Next day this impression was strengthened when disagreement in the First Presidency itself became evident. Said Second Counselor David 0. McKay in a national broadcast: "The conflict must continue. ... We cannot have peace until the mad gangsters ... are defeated and branded as murderers, their false aims repudiated, and this war against wickedness ended...
...green uniforms, Japanese troops moved over the "impenetrable" Owen Stanley mountains. In the great equatorial-rain forests' "battle of lungs" the Japs had the advantage against Australian troops (accustomed to a dry desert climate). Wearily the Australians and some U.S. service troops (engineers, etc.) prepared for a last-ditch stand. The fighting was so fierce that "no prisoners have been taken yet." Australians said the Japs killed their own wounded, played "possum" among dead soldiers and rose up to throw hand grenades...