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Scalise, out in $40,000 bond, resigned his union presidency, wrote the executive board of the B. S. E. I. U.: "Dear brothers and sisters: . . . Under no circumstances will I permit my misfortune to affect those to whom I owe so much. . . ." Thoughtful Mr. Scalise was 24 hours late. The board had already decided to suspend...
...skill of U. S. surgeons "has failed to affect the recorded death rate from the major forms of cancer." Operations on advanced internal cancers save few lives...
...With the South Seas region, and especially The Netherlands Indies, Japan is economically bound by an intimate relationship of mutuality in ministering to one another's needs. . . . The Japanese Government cannot but be deeply concerned over any development accompanying the aggravation of the war in Europe that may affect the status quo of The Netherlands Indies...
...mouthpiece of German propaganda in the U. S.: "You dragged us in last time with your beastly propaganda. . . . What did we get out of it? ... It doesn't matter to us which of you wins ... all right, if Germany does command the seas, it doesn't affect us. . . ." All this although he has no sympathy whatever for Nazidom! At every word he utters, I can see Hitler rubbing his bloodstained hands. The result of all this is that I lie awake. He has murdered my sleep-so I open the doors of Peking with Lin Yutang...
...else Blitzkrieg would affect U. S. business no man could say. Scandinavian trade is a complicated network which taps world ports from the Thames to the Weddell Sea, from Hammerfest to Antarctica. The tireless tramps of Norway, No. 4 world seafarer, carry the bulk of Cuban sugar shipments to the U. S., play a bigger part in Philippines-U. S. traffic than the ships of any nation. South America, with an export balance of $20-25,000,000 annually to Scandinavia, has often used Scandinavian proceeds to buy U. S. goods. Great Britain got 50% of her bacon and eggs...