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...stone on a steel skeleton. Only steel in St. John's is in the roof beams above the vault, where the Gothic churches had wooden beams. Another old-fashioned feature: it has been built, unit after unit, only when the money was on hand. "We don't owe a penny," said proud Bishop Manning last week...
Three singing sisters from Minneapolis made another 2? last week. The Andrews Sisters had sold the 8,000,000th of the discs for which Decca Records pays them 2? apiece. The Andrews girls are the first sister act to owe fame & fortune to the juke box alone...
...owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our Russian allies and to the Government and people of the United States, to make it absolutely clear that whether we are supported or alone, however long and hard the toil may be, the British nation and His Majesty's Government at the head of that nation in intimate concert with the governments of the great dominions, will never enter into any negotiations with Hitler or with any party in Germany which represents the Nazi regime...
...R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
...people of this country owe a great debt to Louis Brandeis. If our present body of public servants consists, even to a small extent, of officials and experts who tackle their jobs with the fervor of conviction; if the typical member of such a body is a cross between the lawyer, the economist, the engineer; if he combines an objective approach with an eye for action; if he is turning from a passive to an affirmative liberalism--then a large part of the credit must go to currents that Brandeis set in motion. In losing him, America has lost...