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...People on the American Farmer, which rescued 29 from the torpedoed British freighter Kafiristan, told about a British light bomber, the U-5-K appearing from nowhere while the submarine still lay by watching the rescue. A half-dozen men were on the U-boat's deck when the diving plane raked it with machine-gun fire. The submarine dived frantically, perhaps with its conning tower still open. The bomber, swooping twice again, dropped charges which almost certainly demolished the U-boat...
...While a half-dozen Senators can prolong debate, in practice a real filibuster needs 15 men.*Last week Washington observers gave the Borah anti-repeal forces a minimum of 25 men, a maximum of 40. Therefore Jimmy Byrnes knew he had the most important thing-the votes-in the bag. But well he knew that only such a magnificent optimist as Franklin Roosevelt could seriously believe that 435 brass-tongued, leather-lunged Congressmen would meekly report to Washington, legislate one bill, then go quietly home in a time of crisis. Byrnes said nothing, silently agreed with Bennett Clark that...
...rest of his testimony Comrade Browder warmed over his story, told in 1936. of the offer of a man named Davidson (who said he represented a half-dozen rich Republicans) to enrich the party by $250,000 if it named President Roosevelt on its 1936 ticket, declared the party had turned toward conservatism since 1935, discoursed on its tenets, tactics, tanglements...
...peace was signed before they got into action. Adolf Hitler promised last week not to use poison gas, but if gas rolls into the European arena notwithstanding, Lewisite and Adamsite are almost certain to get a thorough trial. Otherwise, military experts believe, the armies will rely on the half-dozen gases which proved efficient in World War I. Though nobody can deny it with certainty, it does not seem that a terrible "supergas" has been produced in secret because the realm of possible chemical compounds has been too well explored...
Among scores of other college baseballers singled out this year as big-league timber, there are a half-dozen far more famed (though less skilful) than either Borowy or Tipton. In the Yale line-up two of the most noteworthy players are Outfielder Eddie Collins Jr., son of the Baseball Immortal who helped bring fame to Connie Mack's pre-War Athletics, and Pitcher Joe Wood Jr., son of famed "Smoky Joe"* who won 34 games for the Red Sox in 1912. At Colgate another Immortal's son, Pitcher George Sisler Jr., has proved he is a chip...