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Well aware were the British of this leak in their blockade. To plug it, they had stopped U. S. ships on the high seas (the same sort of thing that brought on the War of 1812), had seized and opened U. S. mails (a criminal offense). They had even confiscated a ton of air mail from the American Clipper as it landed in Bermuda. Explained a spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London: "If it was generally known that we were not examining the mails, they would prove first-class methods of smuggling contraband into Germany." British claim...
Since last spring the world's biggest public school system, New York City's, has wallowed along like a superliner with a laming leak. The New York State Legislature and Mayor LaGuardia knocked $8,300,000 out of the schools' budget. The Board of Education at once hoisted an SOS ("Save Our Schools"), but the public paid little attention...
...Repeatedly in recent weeks Franklin Roosevelt has told callers that Cordell Hull was his choice for White House succession-repeatedly the callers have let this information leak (TIME, Dec. 18, et seq.). And each leak has given three groups of U. S. politicos a sharp case of the cramps: 1) militant New Dealers who are out of step with the President's new appeasement program, and who consider Mr. Hull a single-track fuddy-duddy; 2) those Democrats pledged irrevocably to the candidacy of John Nance Garner; 3) Republican wiseacres who think Mr. Hull would be hard to beat...
...Bureaucracy Gone Mad?" During World War I there were five secret sessions of the House of Commons, and years afterward it leaked out that at the first of these Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith was heckled to the verge of resigning, until he promised there would be no conscription of married men such as was later carried out under David Lloyd George and is commonplace today. Another leak revealed that Mr. Asquith was asked if Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln M. P. was a spy. No action was taken at the time, but this shady character decided to emigrate at once...
...that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin C may also be a factor in causing human peritonitis, for bacteria easily "leak" into an abdominal wound unprotected by healthy, growing tissue. Deficiency of vitamin B hampers restoration of blood-volume after operation; lack of vitamin A may pave the way for mumps, bronchitis, urinary infections, dread post-operative pneumonia...