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Credits & Debits. The biggest Brazilian contributions to the United Nations, however, are political and geographic. Only 1,800 miles from Vichyfrench Dakar, the Brazilian hump provides a handy springboard for a possible future attack on that already half-hostile base. Because of its size and influence, belligerent Brazil elbows the whole South American continent closer to World War II. Already there are signs that Uruguay may follow Brazil's lead, that Chile may break relations with the Axis. This may help to balance the activities of Argentina, Brazil's chief rival for influence over smaller South American countries...
With Columbia pitchers as a springboard last Saturday, the Crimson is set right behind the leaders, and has four batters in the top 10. In the pitching realm, Mort Waldstein stands as the sixth League hurler and Captain Lou Clay eighth. Waldstein's 21 strikeouts in 26 active innings comes only behind the 31 whiffs in 40 frames by Ted Harrison of Yale and the 23 in 35 innings of Princeton's Rey Talcott...
...took his losses, secured his landings on Bali and Timor. With Bali, he won a foothold at Java's very edge on the east, to match his Sumatra springboard on the west. With Timor, he won another eastern approach and control of an essential waypoint on the route by which sorely needed fighter planes were flown from Australia to Java. And now he was probably near enough to Surabaya to immobilize that last, vital naval base even before he sent his troops against...
...provocation: A New Deal youngster, 36-year-old Ganson Purcell, had got the White House green light to become SEC's sixth chairman in seven years. He would succeed New Dealer Edward Clayton Eicher, ex-Iowa Congressman who jumped from the SEC springboard* to Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia...
...Most vibrating springboard in Washington is the SEC chairmanship. From it Joseph P. Kennedy took off to the Maritime Commission and the Court of St. James's; James M. Landis to the deanship of Harvard Law School; William O. Douglas to the Supreme Court; Jerome Frank to the Circuit Court of Appeals...