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enough. Take , who presides. He has been playing along with them all the time. Now he is trying to ram his pals down our throats." . . . People were speaking from all sides of the great room. I rose and said: "Let me suggest to you that you hold a hand vote on Hanzelgruber whose name was suggested." They did, and a vast majority wanted him. Hanzelgruber was the new mayor...
President Ramón Grau San Martín signed a decree last week, granting $772,000 for a Workers' Palace in Havana. A block long, with a huge auditorium, luxurious offices, it will serve as headquarters for the Communist-led Confederation of Cuban Workers. Nowhere else in Latin America will labor have such a home...
...Association, distrustful of the professionals in the Regular Army, has been a determined dissenter to the theory that regulars should dictate a national military policy. The National Guard Association is in favor of compulsory military training. But it has made it clear that it will fight any effort to ram legislation through before...
About 200 planes were credited to pilots from the Mountbatten, MacArthur and Chennault commands, but carrier-based navymen of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mit-scher's task force, from Halsey's Third Fleet, went on a more destructive ram page. In seven carrier raids from Aug. 30 to Sept. 25 (four of them over the Philip pines) 1,101 Jap planes were destroyed. Significantly, Halsey's fourth raid, an nounced last week, was met by only seven Jap planes in the central Philippines. Left on the ground for Marc Mit-scher's pilots to destroy were...
...parades, flags or placards. His first two speeches, as he began his 6,700-mile jaunt to the West Coast and back, were short, crisp, and to the point-good examples of well ordered, factual courtroom talk. His tactical approach was to present one issue in each speech and ram that issue home so hard that the New Deal would be driven into long explanation...