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Treasury Secretary Morgenthau left Washington on a ten-day fishing trip last week with a light heart. He had at last found an effective way to sell large amounts of defense bonds to the general public, thus straighten the worst kink in his three-month-old savings-bond drive...
...there was an over-all explanation of why the first German push came to a halt. After a drive of 355 miles, any Army inevitably gets its communications tangled, has to straighten them out and bring up fresh supplies. Moreover the German attack, although led by Panzer spearheads, had to be followed by infantry to mop up and take possession. Marching at even such a rapid rate as the Nazis claimed the infantry obviously could not keep up with the tanks...
Previous to the time-trial both the "firsts" and Johnny Abbott's "second" eight had been so close together that Bert Haines, the veteran lightweight mentor, had been unable to decide which of the two was really his better boat. In order to straighten things out, he ordered the vital trial, to the winner going the onerous duty of tackling Tech's favored eight...
...bureaus, investigations, and committees. Like the New Dealers also, it is a little inclined to feel that said creations are in themselves a solution for the evil or maladjustment, that if you let the committee alone for a while it will turn up with an enlightened "report" which will straighten out the whole nasty business. It will not do for the Council to take such a comfortable laissez-faire attitude toward its latest baby, the Permanent Committee on Curriculum and Tenure...
When FCC succeeded the old radio commission, it did its best to straighten out the tangle in Brooklyn, recommended that they merge. But the three operators-Metropolitan Broadcasting Corp. (WMBQ), Arthur Faske (WCNW), and Long Island Broadcasting Corp. (WWRL) -had long since given up speaking to each other...