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...Name withheld upon request...
...been assigned for the death of his sister's son-in-law in the concentration camp of Dachau. He finally wrote a letter of categorical denunciation to Adolf Hitler in which he stated, with magnificent naïveté, his "assumption that this letter shall not be withheld from the German people...
Biggest single military aviation secret of the U.S. is its famed superaccurate Norden bombsight. Pictures and descriptions of it have been rigorously withheld from press and public. It has been the prime example, the clear-cut case of the kind of thing that patriots would hardly mention for fear of damaging the country. Last week the U.S. was given another lesson on the subject of what is a military secret...
Last week postal inspectors nabbed George Apley's successor, got him indicted for using the mails to defraud "a certain class of persons, to wit, unmarried females." He was a tall, dashing, 40-year-old Back Bay Bostonian (real name he withheld from the police) and he was accused of having turned his correspondence with intellectual females into courtships, his courtships into loans to pay off a mortgage on a nonexistent warehouse in Fairfield, Conn...
...Utopia is always somewhere else. The farmers want more. In Washington, Alabama's Senator John Hollis Bankhead advised farmers to keep their cottonseed off the market until prices hit $60 a ton (last week's price: about $47, an 18-year high). Wheat farmers have withheld so much (about 40%) of this year's bumper 950,000,000 bushel crop that the conservative Bureau of Agricultural Economics last week turned tipster, predicted wheat would jump another icxf; a bushel within a few months. It now figures 1941 U.S. cash farm income...