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...called Keil und Kessel. Keil means wedge: the Army drives tanks and armored vehicles into the enemy mass. Kessel means kettle: infantry units encircle the cut mass, drive it into a kettle-shaped trap. Last week on the Ukraine front the Germans put the heat under the biggest pot o' Russians ever, and had the chock nearly set for a new drive into the apparently endless Red mass beyond...
...rear-guard pot shot at inflation, the Federal Reserve Board last week ordered its 6,600 member banks to up their reserves by one-seventh ($1,200,000,000), effective Nov. 1. This puts reserve requirements for demand deposits at the legal maximum, means that New York and Chicago banks must hold 26% of their deposits in reserve instead of 22¾%. For other city banks the rate is upped from 17½% to 20%, for country banks from 12% to 14%. All banks will thus have less money to lend...
Louisa (Edith Barrett) likes to put frogs on the dining-room table and make them jump into the marmalade pot. Emily (Elsa Lanchester) collects dead birds and tidies up the river banks. Ellen (Ida Lupino) manages to keep her sanity, except for one regrettable lapse in which she garrotes her employer: pretty, bewigged, aging Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a onetime actress whose onetime suitors have pensioned...
...hardly avoid saying what does pot need to be said, that Professor Kittredge was probably the most widely learned literary scholar this country has had, and that his death marks the end of an era in scholarship as well as in the history of Harvard University...
...many thinking groups that have switched from an unpopular peace-at-almost-any-price stand to open belligerency against Germany, the Harvard Student Union has been the most recent target for Crimson pot-shots. Yet only last year the Crimson stumbled about trying to find a sinecure that would defeat Hitler and keep America from getting hurt...