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...withdrawal was a slap at the U.S. as well as at Britain, because the State Department had confidently counted on Russia to help get rid of the plan. Now the question of an all-powerful air authority was dead-for the time...
...Oregon he had his special train pulled over the Southern Pacific's backwoods Siskiyou line, on which no national candidate had traveled for 20 years. This enabled him to pan for votes in untouched gravel at Grants Pass, Medford and Roseburg. In Oregon, too, he made the voters slap their legs with a charge against the Democratic Administration-that the New Deal had spent $2.97 per rat (you can buy a chicken for $2.97) in a Louisiana rat extermination campaign. In San Francisco, Bricker and party overcrowded an elevator, were stalled in it for ten minutes, finally crawled...
...ahead the bulky, unmistakable shape of a battleship winks a bright orange light. Then the soft thudding slap comes over the water: that blinker was a 14-inch salvo. Cruisers, battlewagons and tin cans are standing in amazingly close to the shore, pounding away with all their guns. We knew the island was to catch some 12,000 rounds of projectiles, 5-inch or bigger. But that was just a statistic; now we see it. We hear the blast of the big guns and the ripping-silk sound of the heavy shells sailing to their targets. We see the warships...
...China's 80 million Communists. Then the P.P.C. appointed a five-man commission of its own to journey to Yenan, capital of Communist China, investigate Communist claims (TIME, Aug. 28). The choice of investigators (not one of the five men named was a Kuomintang member) was an unmistakable slap at the all-powerful Kuomintang. The P.P.C. also demanded...
...cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...