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...bills before Congress would weasel. It simply repeals specific mentions of the Chinese, leaving them still barred by the general ban. The two others would permit Chinese to enter and become citizens of the U.S. under the quota system. The latter bills immediately raised the specter-mainly in the Hearst press-of a horde of cheap Chinese labor swarming into the U.S. The fact: China's quota would permit the immigration of precisely 105 Chinese a year...
...first pig born in Iowa in 1943, nor would it be the last. But in a hungry world, in a nation that for the first time in its history faced the specter of hunger, few events in the U.S. last week were of more importance than the humble birth of sow No. ID'S two-pound pig. (Her litter: eight.)* By so much had the nation's meat supply been increased, by so much had the Battle of Food been...
...country were the overwhelming chores of global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting, endless, day-by-day job of 531 men & women dealing with the nation...
Behind the battle lines in North Africa, from beneath the deadening blanket thrown over all France by Hitler's occupation of the Vichy zone, emerged the specter of French politics. The week's events, starting from the innocent assumption of U.S. military men that control of French Northwest Africa had best be given into trusted and experienced French hands, soon threatened to split Allied feelings along the well-known line of Vichy v. De Gaulle...
...German anti-lice lotion may free the Nazi Army of the specter which haunted it last winter in Eastern Europe -typhus fever. The formula is still a German secret which the Russians would like to share. But the A.M.A. Journal last fortnight gave one possible clue to its ingredients. A Professor Morell put lice on horses, observed that they fell off dead almost at once. The lice were killed, he discovered, by the horses' sweat...