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...McCormack, House Majority leader, the strategists started the bill through the mill in the House first, thus bypassing the usual dragging delay of the jogging Senate pace. By starting the bill in the House, with a steam roller set to pancake all opposition, the Administration hoped this week to rip the bill through to passage in two days of closed hearings, two more days of limited debate, and shoot the bill over to the Senate by week...
...second feature, "Bad Men of Missouri," is a regular rip-snorting Western which should have received top billing. This time the three Younger brothers, Robin Hoods of the West, join forces with Jesse James to provide more desperadoes in one picture than we've seen in a long time. They manage to give the double crossing sheriff, Victor Jory (our favorite villain, by the way), his just deserts, and everything in the end comes out as it should...
This place is practical. This is what the U.S.O. should be. Most men don't go in for chaperoned dancing, or matronly entertainment. But they do go in for a chance to clean up, a bed on a Saturday night rip...
Fifteen minutes dragged into a half-hour, close to an hour, as the technicians with their gauges settled themselves and made their equipment ready for the test. How would she take it? Would she heel to starboard before the recoil of her broadside? Would it rip her guts? Would the blast dash the laymen observers from the eyes of the ship into...
...North shouted for appeasement. Lincoln was inaugurated. At the Washington Theater Joseph Jefferson delighted Unionists and secesh alike with Rip Van Winkle. Hungry customers at Harvey's kept 20 men busy opening oysters. "A valuable Negro" was put up for sale at the county jail. Lilacs bloomed in the dooryards. The new President was driven crazy by "the unceasing tramp" of the Republican office seekers in the White House halls...