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Since the Conservatives are rapidly falling into disfavor, all the advantages of the truce go to the Conservative Party. It therefore enraged Liberals and Laborites when Winston Churchill blandly asserted to Conservative leaders: "The Conservative Party in the end will prove itself the main part of the rock on which the salvation of Britain was founded and the freedom of mankind regained...
Kirkpatrick scholarships to Richard R. Baxter, of New York, N. Y., candidate for A.B. Brown '42; Albert I. DaSilva, of Freeport, N. Y., candidate for A.B. New York University '42; Jerome Kinkelstein, of Jacksonville, Fla., candidate for A.B. Indiana University '42; Jacob H. Martin, of Blowing Rock, N. C., candidate for A.B. Oberlin '42; and Edgar J. Masters, of Lowellville, Ohio, candidate for A.B. Ohio University...
...fishy eye. Mr. Jones haggled, saved the U.S. many a nickel, lost the U.S. millions of dollars' worth of them. When defense agencies pleaded with companies to accept wartime orders and expand, Mr. Jones demanded collateral as usual, saw to it that each deal was a rock-sound financial proposition before he certified a Federal loan. In the summer of 1940 he turned a cold shoulder on synthetic rubber manufacture, because he figured that synthetic rubber would cost 40? a pound to produce. Commented the Nation wryly: "If the United States loses the war, it will go down...
...Department's hottest spots, Chief of Ordnance, President Roosevelt last week appointed rock-jawed, twinkling Major General James Henry Burns...
...week, boys in the street sell chocolate and jelly. When the bombers come, the people take to the caves and catacombs used by the Knights of St. John long ago; these shelters have been enlarged so that every civilian in Malta can go underground. The soft limestone and coral rock is easy to excavate, but when exposed to air it hardens like concrete. Geologically, Malta is a sponge. Militarily, it is a rock...