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Twenty years ago, when the Woman Suffrage Amendment was adopted, many of its supporters expected it to "purify" politics. Few of them expected it to produce such results as it did last week. Women Democrats began to pour into the capital by bus, train, car, plane. Their opening meeting, scheduled to be held at the Washington Hotel, was shifted to the Riverside Stadium. Estimated attendance...
Blue & Yellow Danube. At Donaue-schingen in the Black Forest three small Alpine streams come together to form Europe's second longest river (the Volga is longer), which flows 1,750 miles across central and southeastern Europe to pour its waters into the Black Sea north of Constantsa. The Danube drains 320,200 square miles, has 300 tributaries; with the Rhine and the canal joining the two (now being improved at a cost of $300,000,000) it forms a waterway across Europe...
...points which flanked Sweden's prepared defense zones (see map). Farther north a German force last week reached the Swedish frontier on the railroad line from Trondheim that crosses the narrow part of Norway, and cuts into middle Sweden, turning southward toward Stockholm. From Copenhagen the Germans could pour an endless column of men into Sweden's flat and defenseless bottom. From new air bases in Denmark, Nazi bombers can more easily than ever lay eggs of death in Swedish cities...
...lying on the kitchen floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father. She remembered she did not have a nickel for a pay phone...
...spite of the spreading European conflicts, foreign newspapers still continue to pour into Widener library each day to be microfilmed for future reference...