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...President hopefully addressed the nation: "I know the conscience of the American people will not permit them to withhold or stint their cooperation while their fellow men in other lands suffer...
District Attorney Brown has plenty of ammunition for a showdown between law and organized abortion. A grand jury has indicted a doctor charged with the Christmas-Day murder of a mother of two. Brown has gathered as witnesses former customers whose names San Francisco newspapers have promised to withhold. He is also setting traps for "respectable" doctors who send their patients to the abortion milla or do unreported "repair work" after complications...
...powers put the State Department in a position to trade trucks, textiles, clothing and shoes for commercial or military concessions, to withhold supplies from nations which do not want to deal with the U.S. Said Reconversion Director John W. Snyder: "From now on our foreign policy will have its working tools under its own control...
...study of Army somnambulists [TIME June 18] is unfair to happy, gentle sleepwalkers who are very much interested in women, who never dream of snakes or rabid dogs, or of screaming for Father to come to the rescue. As one of the latter, might I suggest the Colonel withhold further reports until he has studied more than a mere 22 Army men (who probably did not want to join the Army anyway) and try next to include some Navy men, and certainly a Marine or two, whom no one afoot would dare accuse of being "Papa's boys...
...assure him that if he will withhold his opinion of other types of Englishmen until he makes first-hand acquaintance with some of them, he will find many "good eggs" among them also...