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...last line around Mt. Etna. Canadians, between the British at Catania and Americans on the left, took Agira. U.S. troops, apparently Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's 1st Infantry Division (see col. 3), took Nicosia. The only road to that town lay through a deep mountain trough, fortified by the Germans, and past German-held hills. With Captain Edward Wozenski and his company, when they took one of these hills, was TIME Correspondent John Hersey. He cabled...
...Battle Lines. While the Senate might override the veto, experts expected the House to sustain the President. Even the greediest farm lobbyist knew that if the farmers took another grab, labor would shove up to the trough for its turn...
...some of his social prestige (and was in a position to meet diplomatic representatives of enemy countries). He needed these cushions for his ego because the "change of guard" removed him from his position as heir apparent to the Italian dictatorship, and from his easy access to the public trough. Both the Italian people and their German overlords had reason to be pleased...
...Pork on the hoof hit a 22-year high of $15.30 cwt. last week despite retail price-fixing. At $15.30, economists figured that scientific feeding of 85? corn in the trough brought over $2.50 a bu. gross when resold...
...Senator signified togas and statesmanship; Representative (of the people) was the finest word the Founding Fathers could find for a seat in the House. Now Congress was just the little fat whiskery man in the newspaper cartoons, forever falling on his face, leading his family to the public trough, his shirt front puffed out with the blowsy dignity of a burlesque clown. The only Congressional greats left are old men like Nebraska's Senator George W. Norris, Virginia's Senator Carter W. Glass-and they are past their prime...