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...this sequel to his old-time success "The Tavern", the author tells us that he is presenting an "American Melodramatic Satire". For a scant two hours or so, the Vagabond (Mr. Cohan, if you have not divined so already) directs in entertainingly unorthodox manner a very orthodox group of stage people through the intricate contortions of a melodrama to end all melodramas. Bank robbers, policemen, governors, midgets, and fascinatingly naive young ladies put themselves completely in the hands of the Tavern's unidentified guest, and he has them caper about in the fashion most likely to please his laughing audience...
...next afternoon's press conference the President announced that the Welles trip had been fact-finding, that the facts he had found would be held incommunicado, that Mr. Welles had neither made nor received any commitments or proposals. Said Mr. Roosevelt: "Finally, even though there may be scant immediate prospects* for the establishment of any just, stable and lasting peace in Europe, the information made available to this Government as a result of Mr. Welles's mission will undoubtedly be of the greatest value when the time comes for the establishment of such a peace...
First issue of the Tribune, subtitled "The People's Paper," ran to 32 pages. Next day it settled down to 16 pages, one afternoon appeared with a scant ten. Inside were plenty of robust comics (Superman, Charlie Chan. Tarzan), such columnists as Eleanor Roosevelt. Raymond Clapper, Hugh Johnson...
WASHINGTON ... The House today, after a scant four hours of debate, passed and sent to the Senate a new Naval Expansion Bill authorizing expenditure of $654,000,000 during the next two years to add 21 warships, 22 auxiliary vessels and 1,011 fighting planes to the fleet...
...they reached shore. No less than 104 were missing, including the four nuns. Rescued passengers grimly described how those who had obeyed orders and gone to the saloon were trapped and burned, how a mother, clothes afire, leaped overboard, how a lifeboat was swamped by the seas. Some in scant night clothes died of exposure to icy spray and mistral...