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Attorney General Francis Biddle marked off 135 restricted zones from which all enemy aliens must move by Feb. 24. No one could say how many thousands would have to pack up and go. Nor did anyone know where they would go to. (The Government considered the idea of setting up big farm camps in the interior.) Francis Biddle also set up a curfew zone, covering a fourth of California, where all remaining aliens must be in their houses from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., must never travel more than five miles from home...
...Yardlings should duplicate the Varsity's feat with West Flint and Ted Withington in the hurdles, and Frank Coolidge in the dash. Archie Lyon, on the basis of his past times, should lead the pack in the 1,000-yard run. However, he has had a bad cold for the last week or so, and may not be in too good condition. Big Pete Garland should have little trouble in the shot put, while the broad jump and high jump are questionable...
Design for Famine. It was not the British blockade that caused the Greek famine. The Nazi Army of Occupation last year worked like a pack of driver ants and left the country bone-clean. More than half of Greece's wheat (which had to be supplemented by imports in normal times) was "sold" to Germany. Greek tomatoes, even green ones, were hurried to scurvy-ridden German troops in Africa. Livestock, dried vegetables and fruits went the same way. The Germans fried Greek potatoes in Greek fat and shipped them, cooked, back to Germany. The Nazi Army of Occupation, during...
...What America needs today is a good 5? war song. The nation is literally crying for a good, peppy marching song, something with plenty of zip, ginger and fire. Something like Over There, Keep the Home Fires Burning, Pack Up Your Troubles...
...trek through the little-known eastern Andes, the party met many increasingly savage Indian tribes. One of the Yale men tried to trade with them using the traditional mirrors and gaudy ribbons as exchange, but when he offered one native a cheap mirror which he had extracted from his pack, the uncivilized Indian matched it with an identical article from his own pocket...