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...nomination of Wendell Willkie is unique in several respects. Each part of his name has seven letters. His initials are the same as our recent wartime President, Woodrow Wilson. Will history repeat...
Hoping to play his neutrality ace for complete independence of all Ireland, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera stubbornly refused to compromise. "In order to prevent misapprehension," he declared last week, "I desire to repeat that the Government has no intention of departing from the policy of neutrality adopted last September. ..." Representing land-owning Londonderrys and other Conservatives in Northern Ireland, Viscount Craigavon was equally adamant. "Mr. de Valera is once again blackmailing the British Government to end partition," he accused...
...June 1917, two months after the U. S. had entered World War I, the American Medical Association held a meeting in Manhattan. "We will not repeat the medical mistakes of 1898," said the doctors, feverishly discussing their war plans...
Last week, at the A. M. A.'s first annual meeting in Manhattan since 1917, the doctors grimly faced the prospect of possible participation in another war. This time they pledged themselves not to repeat the medical mistakes of 1917. Unanimously the House of Delegates adopted the mobilization plan of Surgeon General James Carre Magee, of the U. S. Army...
Driver Shaw had qualified with the second fastest time of any of the contestants. But, since luck is as important as skill, stamina and mechanical endurance at Indianapolis, even the most enthusiastic Shavian gave him little chance to repeat, especially in a field that included such highhearted and heavy-footed drivers as young Rex Mays, who earned the favored pole position with his top qualifying speed; Kelly Petillo, only other onetime winner (1935); 44-year-old Cliff Bergere, Hollywood stunt man who finished in the money seven times in twelve starts; Mauri Rose, 1936 national champion; Ted Horn, among...