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...forget the whole affair, and get behind the individual governments that we are now serving as true citizens. We have now approximately 8% of our population in the service in these United States, and every single one of us is ready to go the limit as good Americans and spill our blood for those ideals that we above all other people cherish most...
...stopped brooding over this problem, sent his plan off to the Treasury and to a long list of friends. The Treasury was shy about stating any opinion at all, but the friends came through with paeans of praise. Thus encouraged, Mr. Rural last week went down to Washington to spill his plan to the Senate...
...story goes that Itagaki wanted to commit hara-kiri after his disgrace, that his aides forcibly dissuaded him. The known fact is more characteristic of Itagaki. He did not spill his bowels. Instead he returned to Tokyo and shortly attained the highest post open to him: War Minister in the cabinet of Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Men in other armies concluded that he was a mere politician, a fixer, a conniver who throve on the favor of better...
...crowds spill over into North Clark Street's honky-tonks. Sitting six to a table meant for two, they whistle at strip-teasers; until the closing hour, downtown Chicago jumps...
...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...