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...Speaker's gavel pounded the desk. Cried the Speaker: "The time of the gentleman from New York has expired!" But thin, grim Representative Mike Edelstein, fighting mad, talked...
Three Federal officers in plain clothes one day last week shouldered their way into a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. To the thin, tall, elderly man who stood inside, wearing a wrinkled pajama coat and a pair of trousers, they said curtly: "Dr. Rieth, you are under arrest...
...that it came so early. Unlike the drought of 1930, which came in summer, when most crops were well advanced, 1941's drought caught the seeds before they had a chance to start growing. At week's end clouds hovered over the East, here & there dropping a thin, misty rain. But for many a farmer the damage was done: even a downpour would be too late...
...last week Seaman Tapscott, a thin-featured blond fellow now weighing more than 170 pounds, was ready once more for action. A few days after he received his pay check for the 70 days he spent in the open boat, he left Nassau for Canada. There he meant to enlist...
...great number of nominees, especially in the Sophomore class, resulted in a split of the voting, and except for Matters, the ballotting tended to be spread overly thin in the '43 voting...