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...part-owner of the Jefferson Telephone Company in Greene County. When his A ration book for a company car was close to running out, irascible Carl asked for a C book. The ration board asked him to fill out a new application form. That request so empurpled the Daubendiek temper that for two hours on the night of Dec. 15 no Jefferson phone subscriber could get anything out of his instrument except a voice which said, variously, "Daubendiek speaking; no gas, no calls; speak to the rationing board" or "The service is kind of punk -just like the gasoline situation...
...easy step for Chile. In his broadcast to the nation President Ríos warned: "Destiny may drive us to days of sacrifice and trial. We shall face them with the strong temper of Chilean character and the certitude that [they] are the price of the defense of democracy and the future of the country's honor." Chileans remembered how last November he had told them that breaking with the Axis would be tantamount...
...outraged parents called attention to such old Russell saws as, "I am sure that university life would be better, both intellectually and morally, if most university students had temporary childless marriages." Russell's more recent boot was delivered by Philadelphia's Dr. Albert C. Barnes, whose foul temper is as famed as his gallery of Cézannes, Matisses, Renoirs and Picassos (TIME...
Reciprocal Trade. State Secretary Cordell Hull's beloved trade pacts must also be renewed or allowed to die by June. Of all early tests of the temper of the 78th Congress, this will be the most significant. Abandonment of the reciprocal trade principle would be a defeat for freedom of world markets, a victory for high-tariff isolationism. On the debate over this issue, and how it turns out, the U.S. will get its first sharp picture of how the members of both parties in the 78th Congress feel about the postwar world...
...mind the great blessing of Harvard training in free individualist responsibility is its unbinding us from any narrowing systems of thought or limiting habits of mind and thus freeing us each and all to mold our ideas and temper our feelings so that we may unify ourselves with all elements of strength in our country. Only through that unity among all our countrymen may there develop the highest energy of all parts of our national life for the great effort that our country now must make...