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...strategic importance. The combative efficiency of the soldier is at least doubled when he can recuperate in comfort." Ergo, nearly every pillbox is equipped with electric lights, electric stove, a well, beds, running water and glistening latrines. On his visit to the forts last August Premier Daladier cried: "The shield is in place! It is of good metal!" Impressed by the amazing camouflage of many of the forts Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour shook his tousled white head, questioned ecstatically, "The art of War, now more than ever is it not to remain invisible...
...years ago. On his own invitation he appeared before the American Bar Association, informed its members that if the Government's war against crime was to be successful, constitutional guarantees should be suspended, local police should be Federalized, all legal technicalities which shield criminals should be swept away (TIME, Sept. 11). The A. B. A. lawyers were thrown into a professional panic until Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings arrived, disavowed his subordinate's speech, promised to deal with crime in a sound constitutional manner...
...shield is in place. It is of good metal. The country has reason to be calm and resolute. . . . We have the right to make sure of our own liberty which is all the more respected, when it is known that we are capable of guaranteeing...
...barrage from officers and townsfolk. One of the convicts, Lewis Bechtel, was captured while eating at a farm house near Dripping Springs, Okla. Another, Frank Sawyer, was captured two days later at Chickasha after a gun fight during which a man he had kidnapped and was using as a shield was seriously wounded. It was guessed that the rest had holed in among the ravines and abandoned lead and zinc mines of the Ozark Plateau, which once harbored such oldtime bandits as Jesse James and the Dalton Brothers...
...other theory of thyroid action or goiter cause had thorough, assured adherence at Memphis last week. Speakers still felt obliged to define terms meticulously. The thyroid is a double-lobed ductless gland in the neck, which ancients compared to a shield. (Greek thyreos means shield, and the word is properly thyreoid.) But the thyroid spans the windpipe more like a pair of saddle bags. In most people the lobes can be seen as gentle swells along the sides of the neck above the collar bone. The thyroid increases in size normally and temporarily in boys and girls at puberty...