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...week's end the whole investigation seemed about to collapse in a roar of political ill temper. Chairman Alben W. Barkley, also out of patience with the Republican members, announced that he might quit too. So did Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter. George, who has seldom opened his mouth during the hearings...
...wife Francesca had never seen De Gasperi in a more abominable temper. After a fortnight of fever and frustration, he threatened to form a five-party government. While the neighbor's phonograph played, he drafted a tentative list of ministers. Then much-enduring Alcide de Gasperi fainted...
Died. Lieut. General Alexander Mc-Carrell ("Sandy") Patch, 55, defender of Guadalcanal, veteran tactician whose monument was his U.S. Seventh Army's "left hook" from the Riviera north around the Alps, south into Austria; of pneumonia; in San Antonio. A disciplinarian with "a temper like the devil before dawn," Sandy Patch also had deadpan wit and a soldier's knowledge of Kipling. A month before he died, he got the top job of his soldiering lifetime: architect-in-chief -of the postwar U.S. Army...
Pilgrim's Progress. In Miami, Temper ance Christian was charged with drunkenness...
...good intentions into cold storage and wait for more favorable circumstance. I wonder if we are not attempting too much at present. I would advise patience-go slow. A little later it might be possible to solve these questions to a larger extent, if not completely. There is a temper in the world today which makes the solution of these questions almost impossible...