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...could not wait, it could risk its naval strength in sustained attacks on Japan's long sea lines from Yokohama to the Indies. The U.S. could choose its Pacific theater and commit the maximum of strength of planes, tanks and men to the chosen front. The U.S. might even have to choose between action against Germany in Europe and action against Japan in the Pacific, gambling that defeat of one would lead to defeat of the other...
...time all incoming and outgoing mail was censored; censors sat in every newspaper and cable office in Brazil. Although the chief purpose of the censorship was to guard Brazilian neutrality, censors once killed a story about a Bolivian woman who tried to commit suicide after her dog had been run over. Grounds: it set a bad example...
...lately electrocuted Murder, Inc. killer, Martin ("Buggsy") Goldstein, left a $12,000 life-insurance policy to his widow. Prudential Insurance Co. contended it would be "against public policy" to pay it, since a man who knows that his kin are cared for may be more likely to commit a crime. Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, in U.S. District Court last week, finding no precedent for the case, thought otherwise. Said he, "It may be well to ask what sort of determent the voiding of a man's insurance may be when the death penalty does not halt his criminal...
...other picture, "The Night of January the 16th," is a first-rate murder-adventure story about a girl (Ellen Drew) who comes dangerously near being convicted of a murder which, needless to say, she didn't commit. Robert Preston, who manages to clear her of the charge, is his usual dashing self. Included in the plot are many amusing situations, and the picture, unlike "Bahama Passage," moves along at a good rate. On the whole, it's by far the better...
...Flats when, riding a spectacular white horse, he called out a military force to rout the haggard veterans of the Bonus army from their Washington encampments. Army men tell the inside story. When asked who was going to lead the show, MacArthur realized that any man who did would commit political suicide, wind up in a dead-end career. He decided to take the dirty job in his own hands. But at night he used to go down to the flats, distribute money to the boys of his old division...