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...spokesman for the W.C.T.U., the Anti-Saloon League and some 100 other temperance societies. He has kneeling space in the House Office Building by permission of his good friend Ulysses S. Guyer, dry Congressman from dry Kansas, who rises occasionally on the House floor to tack (so far, in vain) a prohibition joker on to other legislation...
...small force still fought the invader. But it was a losing fight, a small-scale replica of the great battle of Luzon. Unless help should come, all the Philippines' defenders could hope for was the bitter, bloody price of a last-ditch fight. It would not be in vain. As long as the Philippines held out, the Jap could not exert his full force on the vital fortress of Singapore...
...taking the sacred name of defense and taking it in vain, the so-called business forces of the country have maligned and unfairly damned labor to such an extent that a misled public has forced Congress to pass these restrictive laws. Craftily playing on the stupid mistakes of a few labor leaders and skillfully using the powers of their allies, the press, the anti-labor forces of this country have succeeded in anathematizing the name of their enemies among the neutral portions of the nation...
...Witty, vain, gregarious Curt Riess is a former German journalist who went to Paris when Hitler came in, became U.S. correspondent for Paris-soir in 1934. His U.S. stuff (particularly on Hollywood) was syndicated all over Europe. Now a resident of Manhattan, he is married to an editor of Collier's, writes for the Saturday Evening Post. His friends: Raoul de Roussy de Sales, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...
...make it safe. And if, by some fault of ours who lived beyond the war, its safety has again been threatened, then the obligation and the duty are ours. It is in our charge now ... to see to it that 'these dead shall not have died in vain...