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...annual spate of Spring elections continues today with selection of House representatives to the Council...
...filibuster ended with a spate of triumphant Southern drawls, followed by final bitter words from the losers. Then it subsided with both sides glaring at each other...
...onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative of a spate of books on the subject was bright, British Barbara Ward's The West at Bay, in which she argued that Western Europe must have Western Union or "we are for the dark...
...mile-by-mile description of the road over the Tuscarora Mountains to Chambersburg and the British military base at Carlisle; a dozen scenes of frontier crowds praying and dancing and singing; a spate of Irish and Scotch dialects; a history of the settlements, Indian wars and politics of western Pennsylvania; a long, rapturous recipe for duck soup...
...Sales and earnings for the second quarter," crowed Johns-Manville Corp.'s Board Chairman Lewis H. Brown, "were the largest for any quarter in the company's history." He did not crow alone. In the spate of second-quarter reports that came out last week, many another businessman sang the same happy tune...