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...minute after he steps out on the floor of the Senate, Lee O'Daniel has promised to introduce a Federal counterpart of the bill he pushed through Texas' legislature, outlawing violence by strikers. He will start agitating for bigger old-age pensions, threatens to pin back the ears of "pussyfooting politicians" around Franklin Roosevelt...
...Ethiopia the British have found that winning a campaign does not necessarily mean finishing it. The Italians have held out in isolated outposts, so as to pin down sizable British forces. Addis Ababa fell on April 6. Last week, twelve weeks later, the British took the stronghold of Jimma with 8,000 prisoners, including eleven generals. Still to be cleaned up: an area in the north, near Lake Tana, where there are 10,000 white Italians; two areas in the south, where there are altogether...
...regular concerts are yet scheduled for the Theater of the Red Rocks. Next beneficiary of its pin-drop acoustics will be a conference of Methodists...
Beating the U-Blitz. Around a huge chart-spread table in the Merchant Ship Plotting Room of the grey old Admiralty off London's Trafalgar Square, a number of officers and clerks bustle every morning, plucking out and sticking in little colored pins. Each pin represents a ship; its color designates whether it is in convoy or independent, whether inbound or outbound...
...usual, the Lampoon is scared of us," sneered tall, dark, handsome J. Robert Moskin, secretary of the CRIMSON, last night as the fourth day without an answer passed since the Plympton Street journalists issued a challenge to their Adams House Annex neighbors for a match of pin-ball...