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Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it.-Psalms, 126:1 (Douay Version...
...anything which most wives and sweethearts want is assurance that their waiting, their nightly letter writing, their valiant dreaming will not be in vain. The precious years are rushing past. Said the women...
...Americans, there was a special recognition of certain precepts which Americans have always held dear, and which would reassure many a citizen that World War II was not being fought in vain...
...many a Senator kept his own tally. Six times the vote was tied. The final count: 43-to-41 against taking up the nomination now. (Actually, the final vote was a 42-to-42 tie, but Ohio's Bob Taft, though bitterly anti-Wallace, switched his in a vain effort to force a reconsideration.) The pro-Wallace vote was made up of ten Republicans, one Progressive and 32 Democrats. The men who had saved Wallace fell into three groups: 1) out & out New Dealers; 2) Senators who might have voted against him but feared C.I.O. retaliation at home...
...Park, Ill., Mrs. Abraham Katz heard the news that her son, Charles, "was saved, and said quietly: "I wish all mothers of prisoners could share my joy." But in Maywood, Ill., families waited in vain for word of 85 of their sons who had been with the 192nd Tank Battalion at Bataan. For most of the families of some 12,000 American soldiers and sailors taken by the Japs-and still unaccounted for-the waiting and suspense only became sharper...