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...Amery, Secretary of State for India, reiterated his Government's support of eventual Indian self-government, but warned India that the Government "will not flinch from their duty" to combat civil disobedience. There was a counter-threat that, if the British jailed all Congress leaders, the aged and frail Gandhi might die a martyr's death. Sir Stafford hinted that Gandhi's actions were treasonable...
...scientists last week admitted that one war is being lost-this year the 58 U.S. varieties of termites, frail, pale, ¼-inch-long insects, will destroy some $50,000,000 worth of property (by boring into and eating the wooden framework of buildings), and almost nothing can stop them...
...recall that any man by the name of William Pettus Hobby has been elected Governor of Texas during that time. "Pappy" O'Daniel, James V. Allred, Dan Moody, "Pa" and "Ma" Ferguson, and several others have been elected Governors of Texas during the past two decades, but my frail and failing memory will not permit me to recall a Hobby as having been elevated to that exalted eminence...
...press, President Quezon said nothing of what his Government-in-exile would do. But it was plain that he considered himself only a temporary visitor. Though his health is frail he knew that, like his friend General MacArthur, he will some day return to his people who are hiding in the hills, to the little, slight-boned, brave men who are standing up, silent, patient, enduring, against...
Missing this year from the 27-team entry list were Donor Vanderbilt (who had twice been on the winning team), Oswald Jacoby and the late Jimmy Maier (members of the famed Four Aces), several other hardy competitors. So the team to beat was a young foursome headed by a frail little honey blonde, 31-year-old Helen Martin Sobel...