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...above and below Sedan. When General Guderian unleashed his Army, all Allied preconceptions of these columns' speed and power went overboard. As did their machines of the air, the Germans' land machines so overwhelmed the Allies that only courage and discipline saved "strategic retreat" from immediately becoming "rout...
...weigh these arguments again. By extending our economic aid to the Allies, we make an Allied victory more certain, and we lessen our chances of entering the war. It is only when the Allies are in danger of disastrous rout that the full forces of pro-war pressure will be unleashed. Only in this way can our impartial voice have a right to be heard in the peace treaty which will mold the future of the world...
Legg teamed with player manager Joe Stern in an impressive 6-1, 6-2 rout of Millar and Cist. Wilson and Homer Peabody nosed out Braunlich and Kaneb, 8-6, 8-6; and M.I.T. got its only point as Freeman and Herron defeated Hough and Marvin...
...everybody had expected, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party won last week's Dominion election hands down. But nobody had expected such a rout as Mackenzie King's enemies suffered. Conservative Leader Robert J. Manion lost his seat, was expected soon to lose his leadership. In Ontario, where blustery Premier Mitchell Hepburn had precipitated the election by knifing his leader in the back (TIME, Feb. 5), the Liberals won 55 seats against 25 for the Conservatives, and Mitch was so discredited that his retirement seemed also in order. Quebec returned Minister of Justice Ernest...
Last Sunday night Manhattan's Windsor Theatre broke the Sabbath with a great scalawaggery of shimmying, shagging, rowdy flashing of black eyes and brown legs, a lively wigwagging of rumps. A comely Negro girl led the terpsichorean rout, rumbaing, impersonating Inca and Martinique maids, flaunting a big cigar in her mouth as a West Indian on an excursion, shimmying in a Florida barrel house, cakewalking as "de Tah Baby" in a ballet on Bre'r Rabbit. This live-wire dancer was Katherine Dunham, young Chicagoan, starting a series of Manhattan recitals with the best Negro dance group...