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Precedent bore out Kalleck's observation. On 27 previous occasions U.S. Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party. The father of Senator Robert Taft had spent two particularly anguished years of deadlock. A sick and beaten Woodrow Wilson had watched an antagonistic Republican Senate reject his League. Hapless Herbert Hoover had scolded and quarreled while a Democratic House hamstrung him throughout the desperate end of his divided Administration...
...matter of grave national concern in Japan. Before the war, Japan had controlled about 85% of the world's silk market. Now she had to compete with U.S. nylon. Last week the patter of tiny feet in mating trays of Tokyo's Imperial Sericulture Experiment Station bore witness to the frantic race between Japanese entomologists and U.S. chemists...
Last week Ruark reminded his readers that it was an even year since the Navy "granted me its most priceless boon, that final handshake." On his anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and politicking veterans, he had snared 10,000 letters. They had called him a "fascist, warmonger, race baiter and moron. Added to draft dodger, horse hater, sadist and war criminal, it seems I am a very unsavory gent, indeed, and I sometimes wonder how I stand...
...have to look far to find the pale, undernourished look of an ex-occupant of the German concentration camp. Two Czech students bore with them the unmistakable back of the tubercular victim. In a country where 40% of the former members of concentration camps suffer from serious lung disease, they have only added their names to the waiting lists of the overcrowded sanitariums...
...London's airport King George kissed his pretty cousin Marina, Duchess of Kent, and shook hands with Archbishop Strenopoulos Germanos. Then a big British Lancaster bore him off to his strife-torn kingdom...