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PHILADELPHIA--President Roosevelt tonight restated his promise to keep America out of foreign wars and charged his Republican opponents with using propaganda technique of the dictators in a verbal blitzkrieg of deliberate mis-statements...
...Army last week was still using mostly Springfield rifles, and thinking about Garands. Official excuse for this situation: that the Garand has not yet been supplied to the Army because it is still going through a normal process of trial, error, correction. Some critics think there is another reason: mis judgment, followed by scandalous reluctance to admit and repair a mistake. This week a serious charge against the Garand is being made public...
...President's retort : As for those $9 billions, the AAA report had been mis taken, had made certain duplications...
...long experience, audiences know at first blush that the high-minded young man with whom Clerk Klara Novak (Mar garet Sullavan) is corresponding through a lonely-hearts hookup is her detested fellow clerk, Kralik (James Stewart). They also know that Hugo Matuschek is all wrong in suspecting Kralik of mis conduct with Mrs. Matuschek. The culprit, as everybody else can see, is oily Clerk Vadas. The outcome is equally certain...
...face of a fish." Its narrator is a young teacher, who learns that under the State he must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military camp one of his pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads about death in the papers, his mind cries out, "Too few are dead...