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...Next day sleek "Roarin' Bob" Reynolds of North Carolina took the floor, held forth for two and a half hours of teary, sob-voiced argument for isolation. Said Senator Reynolds: Hitler is no more of a menace to the U. S. than Napoleon was in 1808. He insisted that the bill had nothing to do with the defense of the U. S., proposed sarcastically that its title should be changed to: "A Bill for the Defense of the British Empire at the Expense of the Lives of American Men and at the Expense of the American Taxpayer...
...King of Egypt is young, flabby, willful. At night, when he cannot sleep, he loves to set off the air-raid alarm, watch his courtiers scurry to the shelter in their night clothes. He eats pounds of chocolates daily. He drives big, sleek, red and green cars-15 Packards and ten Rolls-Royces-and steers them, according to his chauffeurs, better than anybody in Egypt. He is even surer of himself when running his country's affairs...
...Lost his right-hand stenographer, sleek, black-haired, punctilious Henry M. Kannee, 40, his shorthand-man since Sept. 12, 1932. Scrupulous Henry, who worships F. D. R., left behind in the White House a file-full of his stenographer's notebooks, fat with more than nine years of secrets; left with the high regard of White House reporters, who were eternally grateful to him for many things but especially one-the night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead...
Then on another Sunday foreign youths in sleek black bombers swept over central London and dumped 10,000 incendiary bombs in a coldly calculated Nazi attempt at mass arson. Any modern Samuel Pepys picking his way through the twisted streets of the City last week could have described scenes matching those...
...Army's new pursuit planes have been crowned with kudos for speeds they have not reached with military loads under service conditions. Most airmen knew last week that the Curtiss P-4O pursuit plane had a top of around 360 m.p.h., and that other Air Corps speedsters-the sleek Bell Airacobra (P-39), the twin-engined Lockheed interceptor (P-38)-were only crowding 400. They were not doing anything close to the 450 m.p.h. that many a layman thought they were...