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...term "toleration." It does not admit that the actual use of armed force may well not be necessary if it is now made unmistakably clear to Japan that force will be used if necessary." Such a statement removes this proposition from the class of material aid. It is tantamount to a threat...
Ernest ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") Brown, an uninspired Liberal wheel horse, was made Minister of Health last week, succeeding National Laborite Malcolm Mac-Donald, bespectacled son of the late Prime Minister "Ramsay Mac." This shift was tantamount to congratulating Son Mac-Donald for bettering air-raid shelter conditions, his biggest job as Minister of Health. Winston Churchill packed him off to Canada to serve in the important job of British High Commissioner...
...erased. Of eight Longster Congressmen, four were beaten, two were forced into runoffs, one failed to run, only one was renominated. Victory went to the reform regime of Governor Sam Houston Jones, whose favorite candidate, robust, balding Felix Edward Hebert (pronounced E'-bare), won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) to Congress in the First District in a walk. Son of full-blooded Cajun parents, Nominee Hebert was city editor of the New Orleans States last summer when the paper broke the building scandal which doomed the crumbling Long machine...
Harvard is an academic corporation granted a charter under certain specific conditions. This is tantamount to a license to engage in the teaching profession, provided the University abides by the provisions of the charter. The appointment of Bertrand Russell is grossly out of accord with the conditions laid down...
...British demarches was considered tantamount to a direct question as to whether Italy is neutral or at war. It coincided with a report that Pope Plus XII has transmitted to President Roosevelt a suggestion that the moment may be at hand for a "final effort" to secure general European peace before Italy is drawn into...