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There were various explanations for Parliament's apathy. Some held that it showed a growing confidence that the Churchill policies would eventually prove themselves. But from very sober quarters came the simpler suggestion that, as a governing body, the coalition House of Commons had pooped...
...shores of the tiny Hawaiian island of Niihau, Major General Rapp Brush last week addressed elderly, squinting Benehakaka Kanahele and young, strapping, sober-eyed Howard Hawila Kaleohano. "You showed fine qualities," Brush said. "When put upon, you took the only action decent people could take." Thereupon he pinned American Legion hero medals on them. Said the spokesman for the Hawaiians in Niihau: "Thank you, we appreciate this greatly but the greatest award is that given us and our country: from on high [air raiders] we have nothing to fear...
...though Vargas made them stop parading, Brazilians, traditionally jealous of European encroachments, growled for war behind closed doors. Echoes of their growls reached Vargas, who hesitated no longer. Summoning his Cabinet, he had it draw up a sober official statement...
...Cleveland's many human assets is Louis B. Seltzer, able, active editor of the Cleveland Press. He decided it was high time Ohio's 20th District elected a war-minded, world-minded Democratic Congressman to replace British-hating, New Deal-hating Martin L. Sweeney. Editor Seltzer printed sober, painstaking front-page stories that vivisected Martin Sweeney's ten-year obstructionist record and just as calmly boosted young (37), modest, energetic Michael A. Feighan, who had a good record in Ohio's legislature...
Creeper. In Albuquerque, N.Mex., Judge E. C. Gober fined a motorist $100 on the ground that no sober motorist would drive consistently at three miles an hour...