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...collective security, Russia's requirements for individual security might be less pressing. A President with the manifest decretals of the treaty-ratifying Senate would have far greater influence in fashioning a rational peace. The present resolution seems best adapted to provide such support, requiring but a simple majority and sped by the clarifying atmosphere of total...
...Because "Frisco" is a contraction abhorrent to all San Franciscans, roly-poly Mayor Angelo Rossi sped to Hollywood to take issue with 20th Century-Fox, about to release a picture called Hello, Frisco, Hello. Upshot: the mayor got a hundred feet of prelude film in which to express his disapproval, and when the picture opens in San Francisco this week, the title will be Hello, San Francisco, Hello...
...brief career at the side of the anti-Axis powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold...
Washington, it appears, is not too worried about student morale. The wealth of rumors, official and otherwise, that sped about the College yesterday only served to deepen bewilderment. Administrators, Faculty, and students, all spent their time trying to find where they and the University stood relative to the manpower muddle. When the mass of rumors finally cleared away and it became apparent that the release of new information had again been postponed, only one reaction was possible: they've done it again...
With shocking surprise, the stillness was shattered. German armored forces and motorized infantry bore down on the town from all sides. Once inside they sped for the harbor. At the Porte de Castigneau, leading to the naval base, there was a brief, sharp skirmish with French soldiers before the entry was forced...