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...will become the State's first Republican Governor since 1931. They are planning now to thrash Alben Barkley, the Senate's Majority Leader, next year. Even friends agree that White House Wheelhorse Barkley has jeopardized his narrow hold in Keutucky by blindly supporting unpopular administration proposals: the lid on farm prices, the fight against antistrike legislation...
German officialdom paid a reluctant but handsome compliment to U.S. tanks last week, and incidentally pried the lid off a hush-hush American development-a gyrostabilizer mount to keep the tank gun aiming steadily. Reporting a display of captured Allied materiel, the Nazi news agency D.N.B. said...
...crashed on the rocks of the journalist's life. His wife died, and Griswold, suffering from tuberculosis, broke down. His collapse was like the literal living-cut of one of Poe's stories. In his derangement Griswold went to his wife's tomb, unfastened the coffin lid, "turned aside the drapery that hid her face," and seeing "the terrible changes made by Death and Time," fell uncon scious, to be found the next day by a friend...
When WPB slammed the lid on new piano production last July, the gloom-wrapped industry changed over quickly to making plywood plane parts, deicers. But it kept one eye on the piano market...
...Lid Be Taken Off? Such semestral changes in the Soviet curriculum have not usually been considered open to analysis by foreign correspondents in Russia. Since the U.S.S.R. began, there have been just nine months (April through December, 1939) when representatives of the world press could send dispatches from Moscow without censorship (in 1940 practically hermetic) by the Press Bureau of the Foreign Office. As for the Associated Press or the United Press selling their news services to Russian newspapers, those newspapers just are not in the market. However significant it may be of the actual desire of the people...