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...year-old wife, a handsome baby son. Although elected as a reform candidate by voters tired of the blatant inefficiency of the Maestri machine, he is not a reformer. ("New Orleans is no town for a Sunday blue law.") His chief ambition as mayor: to help New Orleans outstrip Miami as "the gateway to Latin America...
...Japanese do not have a monopoly on murder. Certainly the Nazis far outstrip them both as to numbers and methods. So why not include the Germans in our hate programs, including those who were born in this country, of German parentage...
Said instrument is now being sandbagged as a precautionary measure against the free-for-all (at two bits per each) scheduled at the Faculty Club tomorrow night for the remaining veterans of the June invasion of McKinlock Hall. It threatens to outstrip the time when a couple of scabs tried to crash the Long-shoremen's Ball at the old Masonic Temple...
...similar developments in engines, new fuels, new aircraft designs. But they are sure that the Germans cannot go as far, as fast, as either U.S. or British industry. Furthermore, they take a nationalistic pride in predicting that the U.S., if it has not done so already, will outstrip the British. For proof they point to the aircraft the U.S. now has in service, little more than two years after U.S. industry got the money and the green light for war-building...
Third Generation. The third generation is conscious of having a grandfather who sought liberty in a new country, but his picture of that "epic" is dulled by the fact that Father does not respect the old man. It is his simple duty to outstrip his father...