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...Morgenthau wanted his new bill pronto...
These startling figures are not so bad as they look, for physical standards for the two armies are not comparable. Army officials of 1941 are more particular than those of 1917: thousands of recruits who were accepted in 1917 would be turned down pronto in 1941. Today doctors have more precise methods of detecting diseases; for example, tests for venereal disease have been greatly improved...
Lecturing his way across the Deep South, suave, wavy-haired Archduke Otto von Habsburg passed a night at Meridian, Miss.'s Lamar Hotel. After he left next day the management got a frantic letter from his secretary. Count von Degenfeld: would they please forward pronto to Austin, Tex. a nightshirt-snowy broadcloth and with Habsburg crest on the pocket-which His Royal Highness had left behind...
Having wangled ASCAP into a consent decree, the Department of Justice expected the society to get together with the broadcasters pronto. But BMI showed no eagerness to adjust its music difficulties. BMI was taking time out to study ASCAP's decree in detail. If it proved to be more favorable than the one BMI signed a few weeks ago, BMI was prepared to demand an equal break...
...official circles, a few hours after his return, he said that he had personally obtained direct permission from three countries (Colombia, Panama, probably Costa Rica) near the Canal for U. S. military use of their airports in wartime defense of the Canal. If new locks are not begun pronto, he warned (their construction will take six years), Congress will be to blame. Mumbling "economy," his leaders moped back to Capitol Hill to try again...