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...three weeks after Election Day, Sergeant William C. O'Neill, of Marietta, Ohio, was somewhere in France with Lieut. General Patton's Third Army. He picked up a copy of Stars & Stripes, read that he had been reelected to the Ohio Legislature. Forthwith, O'Neill was sworn in by his commanding officer, though he had to wait until Jan. 26 for orders to come home. By that time he was in Belgium. He raced to Paris in a jeep to catch a plane bound back to the east coast...
...July 1942 Petrillo decided he had better get moving against the menace to unionism at Interlochen. He ordered the cancellation of broadcasts by Interlochen's National High School Orchestra over the NBC chain. The boys & girls were displacing professional musicians, said Petrillo. The boys & girls were forthwith banned. Last week Little Caesar Petrillo tried to close up Interlochen altogether. He put it on the union's "unfair" list...
This meant that faculty members who teach there would forthwith be suspended from the union, could get no paying job anywhere in Petrillo's empire-which is the entire musical U.S. - until he lifted his ban. Since the camp is open only two months of the year, most of its teachers depend on commercial engagements for their main income...
...Paraguay forthwith declared war on Germany and Japan...
...would forthwith raise the maximum benefit to $20 a week, stretch the time periods to 26 weeks. Lester would try to do it by nudging the states to make more liberal use of their reserves, now in excess of $6 billion. To get the states on the move, he urged Congress to set up a Federal guaranty fund of $600 to $700 million to support any state fund that becomes depleted by prolonged benefit drains...