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This week Franklin Roosevelt invited nine members of the House and Senate (including Republicans Austin of Vermont and Wadsworth of New York) to the White House, sat them down to listen to General Marshall. What they heard they kept generally to themselves. But anybody could guess it. The blunt fact was that only two of the Army's 33 divisions (the First and Third) could be kept relatively intact if the U.S.'s one-year soldiers were sent home. The other regular outfits would have to start all over again. Draftees would have to be lugged back from...
...includes 16 reports, many of them told to the authors by participants of the battle. They are terse, matter-of-fact, human and terrific. Twenty-One Days is Sergeant Jack Wadsworth's description of the Flanders retreat and the rescue at Dunkirk. Fight to the Finish is a report by Chief Petty Officer Bishop and Signalman Gold of the sinking of H.M.S...
Time, and Mr. Pace's sentiments, worked for Franklin Roosevelt and his bill. Congressional mail had dropped way off; all the other bogey-bills had drawn much heavier mailbags. The House attention stayed on Sam Rayburn and on tall, balding Republican James Wolcott Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y.-who made the best House speech of the week, merely pleading for a unity of purpose in grave times...
...Greater Boston Community Fund will not conduct a room-to-room canvass for funds among undergraduates this year, but will be glad to receive contributions at the Fund headquarters in Wadsworth House, it was announced last night...
...rumored that a few Harvard men had a lot to do with the passage of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. Now that they have succeeded in their aims, the advice of another Harvard man ought to be considered in administering...