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...rose Michigan's erect and greying Arthur Vandenberg, the Senate's other San Francisco delegate. Arthur Vandenberg is an accomplished and resounding orator. His usual custom is to pile his desk high with green-bound copies of the Congressional Record, lay his carefully prepared manuscript on top, thus leaving his arms free for gestures. Sometimes he has a small lectern brought in. But this time Senator Vandenberg used neither lectern nor notes...
British Tommies, roused for once to a burning fury, allow them no respite. It is their just reward. Perhaps it can all be summed up in the few croaking words that came from a pitiful pile of rags and bones that lay at my feet: "Look, Englishman, this is German culture...
...plain fact was that, as the world entered the last half of the sixth year of war, there was simply not enough food to go around. Since the U.S. is the greatest food producer in the world, the big troubles piled up in Washington. Last week the flame of conflict among three Government groups burst from the pile...
Ingredients: one cigarette smoked down to the burned finger stage, one pile rubbish, loose papers preferred, and a good healthy H entry updraft...
Outside, an R.A.F. officer asked: "What do you think of the railroad station?" Blankly the correspondent asked, "What railroad station?" The officer waved at a nearby pile of twisted steel. "The perfect answer," he said...