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...first the strong man made and broke Presidents: seven of them in seven years, including Grau San Martin, whom he propped up for a few months (September 1933-January 1934). He fattened the Army from 8,000 to 20,000 men, gave it one-fourth of Cuba's budget. He put down political unrest with a hard sergeant's hand...
...bosses the Corps's air arm, smoked his usual 14 cigars a day last week and worked diligently at his desk in a corner of the Navy Building. He had seen Cunningham's division of five officers and 30 men grow into an organization which embraces almost one-fourth of the Corps's entire personnel. Over its size and its quality Marines pop their buttons with pride...
...Japan's defeat nor a vast in crement of territory will solve China's domestic problems. Four out of five Chi nese depend upon the soil they till. Of China's 360,000,000 farmers, 200,000,000 do not own the land they cultivate; only one-fourth are able to make ends meet...
...Allied troops holding one-fourth of the embattled town of Cassino, main obstacle on the Fifth Army's road to Rome, silently pulled back 1,000 yards; the Germans did not know...
Democrats and ALPsters, instead of glowing over victory, rushed into print with as many "explanations" as if they had lost. Election Day was wet, snowy, and nasty; balloting was only one-fourth of normal. They alibied on & on: loyal Negro Democrats weren't interested; Franklin Roosevelt himself was not on the ballot; New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia, telling his supporters after the election what he was careful not to say before, blamed his Party's weak choice. He described Bennet as "cultured, educated and experienced" and Torrens as a "Tammany wardheeler...