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This week the Republican National Committee met in Chicago to lay down the Party policy for 1942. Chairman Joe Martin of Massachusetts, as usual, wanted a do-nothing, say-nothing policy. Ohio's Senator Taft and Illinois' Senator Brooks, both rock-hard Isolationists before Pearl Harbor, wanted no mention of post-war attitudes. Wendell Willkie wanted a clear statement that the Republican Party realizes and accepts the post-war responsibility of the U.S. to the rest of the world...
...formed over Texas, moved slowly northeast over the Appalachian Highlands. The moisture cooled, fell in torrents on a land just emerging from one of its severest winters on record. Its hillsides were blanketed with wet snow, its streams and rivers jammed with thawing ice. The soil was deep-frozen, rock-hard. . The melting rains coursed off the Appalachian hillsides as if they had been sloping tin roofs. Monstrously gorged rivers roared like millraces, burst their narrow channels. From Maine to Kentucky a vast, swirling chaos enveloped the valley towns and cities...
Craig Wood, seasoned professional of Deal, N. J.: the national match play open golf championship, 2 & 1, from Al Espinoza, next-to-eldest of the famed four golfing Espinozas; on a course frozen rock-hard at San Francisco...
...Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr and chatter...