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Keenly responsive to the national emergency, the drought-ridden South, which produces more than half U.S. aluminum, last week tried in vain to cut its non-defense power consumption 20% to 30% by voluntary action...
...bearded Judas emerges as a shifty, bootlicking, debt-ridden chiseler, and a onetime lover of Mary Magdalene. High Priest Caiaphas is a pompous, bull-like prelate, Pilate an ineffectual figure. In a rather too pat invention, the "good thief" crucified along with Jesus is no thief but a revolutionist whose daughter is a Christian. The miracles, and the appearance of angels at the tomb of Jesus, are reported matter-of-factly...
...Teutonic conquest had flowed and ebbed for 2,000 years before it caught up with Wilhelm Hohenzollern and left him stranded when it briefly receded. The Warlord of Potsdam, as he talked of history's cry for leaders, must have thought of other German warlords who had ridden the tide of conquest when it flowed. He must have thought, as Adolf Hitler so often thinks, of the fear which has caused other peoples to fight against the tide for 2,000 years of history...
Captain Sonny Lyell, playing number two singles in place of exam-ridden Homer Peabody, easily defeated gigantic Henry Loeb in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3, while Russ Ellis, having ben moved up from number four, beat Bill Clark 6-0, 6-3 in the next singles contest...
With grave, careworn Cordell Hull the reason is partly age (69 years j. Buried in the paper-shuffling details of his mountainous task, he very often does not realize what goes on in the intrigue-ridden old halls of the rococo Department. This rough judgment, made solely in the blazing exigencies of wartime, and without regard to the saintly Tennesseean's years of patient, farseeing service, is current in Washington...