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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later described as "powerful enough to destroy all property and life in a section a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long." So impressed was Senator Frazier that he opposed the Hale Bill to enlarge the Navy, on the ground that Mr. Barlow's invention would make obsolete all existing military and naval armaments...
...enough people agreed with Senator Frazier, and Mr. Barlow took his plans to Soviet Russia. (He believed that Russia was the only nation which would make use of his invention to force universal disarmament.) In Moscow, too, the idea was considered a dud. Returning, Mr. Barlow turned aside into politics and social planning. He announced he would run for Congress as a Townsendite and an "associate of Huey Long," made high-explosive speeches to Stamford, Conn, friends. He kept his hand in by turning out a liquor bottle which could not be refilled, continued to think up new engines...
...Senate torn by an effort to make politics pure continued last week to ignore a resolution by New Hampshire's stubborn Charles W. Tobey. Mr. Tobey wanted the Senate to deplore the Census Bureau's income and personal questions. Flying in Mr. Tobey's direction came a brickbat from Franklin Roosevelt, a concession from Commerce Secretary Harry Hopkins. Snapped Mr. Roosevelt, touchy last week with a cold: "For the first time . . . a U. S. Senator has openly advised the American people to violate the law." Mr. Hopkins, still ill and away from his desk for the eighth...
...Denial of reinstatement to workers who engaged in willful violence would make NLRB a glorified police court...
...Finland opened as usual on all fronts last week. Soon after dawn, Red bombers appeared over interior cities, methodically dropping demolition where it would most damage communications and transport, incendiary charges where they would burn homes and civilian morale. Northeast of Lake Ladoga,* Red tanks and infantry tried to make headway where three of their divisions had been whittled to bits. As usual, they were driven back. At Taipale, Vuosalmi and along the Vuoksi in the centre of the Karelian Isthmus, tired Finnish defenders stood firm under fresh concatenations of heavy Red artillery, replying with their own shells to break...