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...Rus Ellis, Homer Peabody, and Howie Ezell defeated their singles opponents by straight sets, while Ross Lyell and Owen Wilson triumphed in two out of three. In the doubles matches, Peabody and Lyell won with straight sets, and Aubrey Gould and Bob Daniels took their opponents two out of three...
Japan has just about given up the idea of taking Chungking. Her objectives, all of which she may be able to get, are: 1) Sian, main link between North China and Chungking; 2) Lanchow, key to Rus sian aid to China; 3) a complete cut-through in the Southwest...
...lofty view of the works of Charles Dickens ("the greatest of superficial novelists"), sneered at Henry Kingsley ("the author leaps astride of a half-broken fancy . . . and trusts to Providence for the rest. . . ."), was appalled by Walt Whitman ("You talk entirely too much about your self."). Longfellow, Whittier, James Rus sell Lowell contributed to The Nation...
...defense picture completely changed. The General Staff poured troops back into Bessarabia and rushed construction of border fortifications. King Carol took Premier George Tatarescu and most of his Cabinet by special train on a four-day Bessarabian inspection trip. In Chisinau, capital of the province, leaders of the Rus sian, Ukrainian and German minorities were brought around to meet His Majesty. They swore : "We pledge our lives for our beloved Rumanian fatherland...
...remarked that the two main reasons that the right or wrong of Rus sia's action was not included in the A. S. U.'s platform were 1) fear that a statement raising a moral issue over the Finnish war would be used by those seeking to involve the United States, and 2) taking a stand where there was so much disagreement would tend to split the Union...