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...home thoughts of the U. S. had concentrated on the Republican National Convention (see p. 16). Its foreign thoughts were fixed on the partitioning of France and the fate of the French Fleet. The thoughts of its Congress (see p. 18} were on preventing the transfer of 20 "mosquito" boats to Britain (which the President finally and abruptly canceled), on approving a $4,000,000,000 authorization increasing the U. S. Navy by 70%. But the thoughts of its President were on an idea...
...double the patrols along the Canadian and Mexican borders, Congress appropriated $1,600,000. Scared of everything to do with war, several Congressmen denounced Mr. Roosevelt's approval of the sale of new Navy "mosquito boats" to Great Britain, his Cabinet appointments of Stimson and Knox, both known to be somewhat more than pro-Ally...
...expedition has to drag its heavy boats over forested hills to avoid the French on Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers...
...auxiliary force of the late General von der Goltz, takes the liberty of pointing to the fact that much could be done to relieve the fighting troops next summer by supplying them with Rubbing Flit in individual pocket containers. Worse than the cold of the winter season is the mosquito plague in the eastern lake district of Finland, which is liable to enhance the sufferings of war and even to bias the morale of the best educated and disciplined army. I presume that an appeal to your readers might get the attention of some oil refiners who might...
...morning till 6 at night. Pity was the one thing she shied from. In defiance of it, she played golf, rode horseback. She even devised little tricks to make her disability less grim. One was to bend over, slap her ankle as though she had a mosquito bite. Her friends forgot to pity her, laughed with...