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Such oratorical omelets, composed of Southern corn, overblown poetical allusions, rough waggery and incoherent rambling have seldom been presented in the halls of Congress since the days when John Randolph of Roanoke used to stride into the House, whip in hand, followed by a Negro boy with a flagon of porter, to administer a tongue-lashing to Henry Clay...
...south Poland that the German disintegration was most apparent. Here the Germans had feared the first and heaviest Red blows. Yet here they crumbled as abjectly as everywhere else. Lublin was reached in a giant stride covering 50 miles in two days. This week it fell...
Press and radiomen were told on Monday that Indiana Senator Samuel Jackson would read President Roosevelt's long-awaited letter about Henry Wallace to them that night. The press took this in stride. So did all the networks except...
D.N.B. reported that Rundstedt had been relieved because of ill health, a plausible enough reason, had not the same agency's correspondents, two weeks earlier, reported on his "firm, healthy stride." But observers in Allied and neutral countries could see other reasons: 1) the invasion had neither been stopped on the beaches nor hurled back into the sea by the man specifically picked for the job 27 months ago; 2) despite his high professional standing, Rundstedt had long been considered politically unsound from the Nazi point of view; 3) he and his field commander, the Nazi favorite Marshal Erwin...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, the smallest U.S. Government agency, last week took the biggest stride forward yet made in Federal postwar planning. The repercussions rattled the windows in airline offices all over the U.S. and shook those of every foreign embassy in Washington. Handsome, hard-working CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue, 44, caused the sensation...