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Sirs: It has been dinned in our ears by the isolationists that our entry into another world conflict would spell the end of American democracy. The now imminently possible defeat of Britain and France and triumph of Totalitarianism will even more certainly spell the end of American democracy. Attacked by an economic Blitzkrieg more deadly than an armed invasion, our only defense will be "fiveyear" plans, government subsidy, strict control of industry and production, a lower standard of living, and ultimate surrender of the freedom of press, radio and education...
...This is a National Emergency, not a mere trade depression. It is having an unreasonably bearish psychological influence on the market. Example: although steel securities are down, steel production has been moving up. A moratorium would give dazed security holders a breathing spell in which to realize how cheap they have made stocks in relation to current earnings and National Defense prospects...
...materials section of a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn has drawn, etched and lithographed in black. A specialist in bulging bankers and pneumatic nuns, Dehn went to Manhattan in 1916, got odd jobs drawing for the old Liberator, drifted off to Europe for a spell, soon made himself a reputation as one of the ablest and most individual black-&-white men in the U. S. Half straight, half comic, Dehn's squirming, salty lithographs were prized by art connoisseurs as well as magazine readers, made the grade of leading U. S. and European art museums...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt arrived at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga. for his 32nd vacation in seven years, his second breathing spell in 1940. The President devoted all his time to getting well, for he arrived with a slight temperature, a holdover from his bout of intestinal influenza...
...formation made of limestone dissolved from the roof; under that a Folsom layer containing typical Folsom spearpoints, charcoal, bones of sloths and catlike carnivores not yet identified; under that a layer of "sterile" yellow ochre (containing no bones or implements), showing that the cave was uninhabited during a wet spell; under that the Sandia layer (see cut), containing lance or javelin points, remains of fires, bones of elephants, horses, camels, sloths and bison...