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Administration Senators last week threatened a filibuster to keep the Logan-Walter Bill from passing, threatened (if that failed) to tack an anti-lynching amendment on to it, which would force Southern Senators to filibuster. Unless Congress changes its mind and adjourns, the last days of one of the longest sessions in history* may end in a welter of futile harangues among the ghosts of Webster, Clay and Randolph of Roanoke...
...after Coventry, it was London's turn again and the most massive night at 20 tack yet launched upon the capital poured down another five or six hundred tons of death. Only a providential overcast prevented this happening to London two nights in a row. Although London's antiaircraft defense is far heavier than any other British city's, Luftwaffe was apparently ordered and geared to shoot the works...
...plans for the President's visit included a short ceremony in which Langdon P. Marvin '41, head of the Roosevelt for President College Clubs and godson of the President, was to have pinned a "Youth for Roosevelt" button on the President's lapel. This had to be cancelled for Tack of time. However, Marvin did report to the President on his activities in a fifteen minute conference at the train following the rally. Mr. Roosevelt expressed appreciation of the work he was doing...
...eager to win the U. S. title again this year to enhance his prestige as a potential partner for Don Budge on a professional tennis tour. But McNeill does not scare easily. After taking a sound thwacking for two sets, he sprang from behind, unleashed his formidable net at tack, dominated the court, finally dethroned the champion...
...whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws in the wind still showed a general trend to the G. O. P., Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, still leading the field, maintained his second tack on foreign policy. In New York (Jan. 20) Mr. Dewey was close to Mr. Roosevelt's position; in Isolationist Wisconsin (March 30) he went Isolationist with a big I; last week he insisted any additional aid to the Allies would lead to U. S. involvement...