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...reception from the home folks. For this earnest, rumpled newspaperman whom Republican Governor Harold Stassen chose last year to take the place of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen is an ardent crusader for President Roosevelt's foreign policy. And for over 25 years Minnesota has been a sand pile of isolationism...
...Britain. . . . He has a great record of trade union administration behind him, but it is of a peculiarly unrepresentative kind. . . . His tone is often dictatorial, revealing that he considers himself the master of his union rather than the servant of his union. ... He forgets he is perched on a pile of pennies...
Deep as the pile of a Templeton carpet are two secrets: where the Cabinet shelter is, where the bombed-out House of Commons is now quartered...
...been within 350 miles of Japanese airfields. The Road is peculiarly vulnerable: it passes over two bridges slung precariously in gorges of the Mekong and Salween Rivers, and as it winds around the shoulders of huge hills it is as easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers, and to the amazing Chinese capacity for regeneration. Thousands of coolies mend steel bridges with bamboo and rope, fill craters and landslides with little basketfuls of dirt...
...swarm of food speculators who sell them illegal supplies when normal stocks are gone, thereafter force them to go on doing business with them or be handed over to the police. Although retailers are licensed, wholesalers are not; as many as ten middlemen in some cases may pile up their profits in the dark. The London Daily Herald has unearthed a nest of "speakeasy" restaurants dealing in illicit food supplies...