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...dramatic roll-call vote the Harvard Student Union last night endorsed material aid to England by a 74 to 71 margin, and adjourned in a maze of parliamentary red-tape...
...Gold Coasters opened the University's straw vote season yesterday with a trial poll, sponsored by the House Committee. Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee for President, finished first by the margin of 110 to 93, or 51.4 per cent to 43.4 per cent for Roosevelt. Norman thomas, Socialist candidate, received 3.75 per cent of the total vote with eight ballots, and Roger Babson and Charles A. Lindbergh both received votes. Over 80 per cent of the House participated in the poll...
...turncoat Democrat who has become "the Nation's Number One Roosevelt Hater." Even Boss Flynn finally announced he would emplane for the West Coast, see how things were going. In tones of ruthless triumph he thundered: "We must not only win, but win by so big a margin that it will be a long time before the opposition again insults the American people by nominating for the Presidency a representative of all those forces bent on destroying the gains for the ordinary citizen that have been made under our great Chief Executive...
Clare Boothe is the author of Broadway hits, The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin for Error. Last February she decided to go to Europe, find out what the war was about. What she saw & heard, what she thought & felt, she has put into Europe in the Spring...
...reasons for Italian confidence was apparent superiority in the air. With a pronounced margin in numbers, the Italians also had at least parity in plane quality, since the British use mostly planes like Gloster Gladiators in Egypt, where dust and sand jam modern retractable landing gear. A third possible reason for Italian optimism was numerical superiority-perhaps four-to-one-in troops. Another was the threat of a diversion against the British rear, from Italian East Africa...