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...been many things: the New Deal's President, Labor's President, the President of One-Third of the Nation, the politicians' President, the Democrats' President. But now he seemed to have become the soldiers' President-a President who thought, argued and acted with the stubborn singleness of purpose growing out of daily orders to and reports from the fronts. The soldiers were asking: Why should the folks at home object to being drafted for work, when we have been drafted to fight...
Something Will Be Done. Back to Capitol Hill came Illinois's Scott Lucas with a rewritten version of the bill which he stubbornly defended for six days last month. He was now ready to be sweetly reasonable toward the equally stubborn Republicans who had fought his bill. This time, Senator Lucas felt, he had a measure to resolve all objections. His would-be Federal War Ballot Commission need not infringe on States' rights. Acting as a mere administrative office for the Army & Navy, the Commission could send out ballots, collect them, and pass them along to the states...
...hours, materials and money already spent on Canol have been an "inexcusable" waste. The committee admitted that the Army might be partially forgiven a mis take during the frenzied months after Pearl Harbor. But what the Committee could not condone, nor ask the U.S. to dismiss lightly, was the stubborn brass-hattery which had refused, time & time again, to correct, or even to admit the original blunder. The Army had been amply warned...
...Down and Talk." Yet there are signs that the Polish Government may not actually be so stubborn as its official statements indicated. Said Premier Mikolajczyk last week: "The question of the line is not so important. The greatest problem is to get security for the Polish population. We want no evacuations and we want no revenge taken on our leaders...
...explain to them the curio which has long adorned their mantelpiece - "Professor Caswell tells me this damn thing happens to be a Ubangi symbol of fertility." Another woebegone figure, a chicken farmer, is discovering the literal truth of the description on his chicken feed, "Lay or Bust." The stubborn hens are exploding all over the place. There is an angry hound who, with a great ripping of one pants leg, yanks a man into a room where two ladies are seated ("I divorced him years ago, but our retriever keeps bringing him back"). And there are two contestants glaring...