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...reports showed that the stubborn Japs had organized everything which they thought necessary to retake Guadalcanal once & for all. They formed a powerful bombardment task force, including battleships, which was to come in with the most terrifying kind of attack, night shelling, and pound the will to resist out of the U.S. beachhead. Then convoys of transports with over 20,000 troops and with all essential weapons, such as tanks and heavy artillery, were to effect landings. Then, perhaps with the help of carrier-based air attacks, the entire force was to do its final job. That was what...
...Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive of Sept. 12-15, broke the Hindenburg Line in the stubborn Blanc Mont sector, was in the forefront of the battle in the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The division captured 12,026 prisoners altogether (about one-fourth of all captures by U.S. forces), suffered 24,429 casualties, won 2,000 Croix de Guerres...
Last week, six months to the day after British forces first landed at Diégo-Suarez, the stubborn Vichyfrenchmen of Madagascar signed an armistice. Governor General Armand L. Annet had not been able to offer the British much war, but at the bidding of Pierre Laval he had done the next best thing. By forcing the British to take each port in turn and to march to each inland city, then by stalling on armistice terms, Annet had kept some British land and sea forces from fighting Germans and Japanese as long as he possibly could...
...Fetish of 2%. This fiasco was the result not of any weakness in the Government's credit but of the Treasury's stubborn amateurishness. Most bankers agreed that the offering would have been a success if it had consisted of 2¼% bonds of 12 to 14 years maturity, but the Treasury brushed aside their advice. More than that, unlike Mr. Mellon, who confessed to his error when he misjudged the market, Mr. Morgenthau stuck to his dignity, put on a little homily on 2% financing...
...Daughters of the American Revolution, who once outraged music lovers and democrats by refusing to let dusky Contralto Marian Anderson sing in their Constitution Hall, had a wartime change of heart last week. When her stubborn Manager Sol Hurok again asked for use of the Washington hall, the DARters went him one better, formally invited Miss Anderson to be soloist on one of their war-relief concerts this winter...