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...fifth, when a walk and Hegan's single were sandwiched between three of Moe's four strikeouts. The visitors loaded the bases with two out an inning later on two walks and Bill Cliggott's double, but Gleason threw out Chet Kasper on a nice play to end the threat...
This was no empty threat. Since Neighboring Norway and Denmark were invaded in 1940, Swedish airmen and antiaircraftmen have shot down scores of German planes which flew over Sweden and failed to heed warnings. The Swedes do not want to go to war with Germany. But they also know that Germany, amply occupied elsewhere, does not want to go to war with them...
Cried he: "That airplane bombing had all the appearance of a tryout to test if the Catholics of America would be alarmed or enraged at the implied threat to bomb the Capitol of Christendom...
...thousand miners have already "wildcatted," the War Labor Board, like every other major agency designed to deal with labor disputes, has thrown up its hands and passed the buck, this time to the President. The buck could go no further. The President has acted, fighting back with a vague threat of force. How much of the blame can be thrown on political ham Lewis and how much on the mine operators and the government...
...editorial pages is their privilege. But when they make use of the news column, supposedly devoted to exposition of fact, to give their readers mistaken impressions about the beliefs of public and church leaders, they do more than cripple the national program at a crucial time. They become a threat to democracy itself, because they dilute the value of a free press...