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...York newspapers last week broke out in a rash of three-quarter-page fund-raising advertisements extolling the beauties and virtues of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidjan in Soviet Siberia. The voice was the voice of California chambers of commerce, but the hands were the hands of Russia...
...what they would "rather do than be a journalist," the editors offer a rash of suggestions from farmer and house carpenter to locomotive engineer and successful novelist. One wants to "be a good writer"; another would like to get some sleep; two would prefer to comb beaches; and one disgruntled citizen proclaims, "I bitterly oppose work of all kinds...
Meanwhile the big guns of the Southern delegation had been gathering material for the battle to come. Mississippi's roundheaded Senator James Eastland swore darkly to talk "two years if necessary." His fellow Mississippian, Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was less rash. He would speak twice-"for 30 days each time...
...winter Winston Churchill had been troubled by coughs and colds; he badly needed the month or more of sunshine and warmth he would find in Florida. But his absence from Britain-and from the new session of Parliament-had started a rash of newspaper rumors that he was stepping down from the Tory leadership. Already Party quidnuncs were speculating about his heirs. His great & good friend Anthony Eden would deputise for him-with his ex-friend Lord Beaverbrook's open disapproval. And there were others in the field to inherit the Churchill political estate, if it should be probated...
...hockey had become more violently rowdy than ever. There was a rash of sprains, broken bones, and bashed heads, and player tempers showed no signs of cooling...