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Amid the hue & cry of Congressional debate, a political revolution of at least minor importance was about to be enacted this week. Ready for final passage was the soldiers' vote bill. And though Southern Senators might weep and States' rights theorists tear their hair, the bill suspended poll taxes for the duration of the war, as far as soldiers and sailors are concerned...
Tisha b'Av is also the day when the Jews of Jerusalem gather at the Wailing Wall, all that remains of the Second Temple, to weep and pray for Zion. This year Tisha b'Av in Jerusalem was more solemn than ever, for there was scarcely a Jew who could not hear in imagination, above the ritual wails, the clank of Rommel's tanks...
...corn country (University of Iowa, '35), young Carey moved into his first Broadway role as Gertrude Lawrence's leading man in Lady in the Dark. Paramount, which had previously tested and rejected him, took him when it bought the play. Now it can do nothing but weep over its new find. His draft rating...
Like a schoolmaster caning a child and then roaring that he must not weep, the President had said: "Until this job is done, until this war is won, we will not talk of burdens." Congressmen crept off into their cloakrooms to groan in quiet-all except the good gooseherds of the tax committees: North Carolina's hamhanded, aged (78) Representative Robert L. Doughton, and Georgia's urbane, grey (64) Senator Walter F. George...
Although their coverage is spotty over the U.S., super markets do 52% of all food business in Houston, 50% in Syracuse, N.Y., 41% in Los Angeles. Some of their sales figures are enough to make an oldtime corner grocer weep. In a single two-day sale, two Big Bear stores in Columbus, Ohio attracted 50,000 customers, sold about 175 carloads of food...