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...endorsement of the Army, Treasury and WPB), so Pat McCarran stayed on his feet. If he ever sat down, Administration leaders hoped to call up a bill extending RFC's borrowing authority by $5 billion (to finance war-plant expansions). But squarely blocking such hopes was the threat of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, a leader of the farm bloc, to start all over again the battle over farm-parity prices...
Franco's threat bore the Axis stamp and perhaps foreshadowed Axis strategy. Whether Washington's recent diplomacy -kind words to Franco from President Roosevelt, loans, trade pacts-had come utterly to naught remained to be seen. U.S. relations with Franco were as cloudy, and perhaps as expedient, as those with Admiral Darlan. But U.S. and British military men took no chances...
...close fight for its perennial supremacy in the House league, the Winthrop hockey men will have to work hard to dispel the threat of Adams hard skating sextet. Although statistically the Puritans have an edge, having beaten Eliot 6-1 after a 4 to 2 victory by the Goldcoasters over the same men, the outcome of the race is still very much in doubt...
Finally discovering what it's like to win a close game after having lost two of their contests this season by two-point margins, the Jayvees held out against Northeastern's last half threat to take their second victory in a row, 43 to 30, in the preliminary to the Varsity game last night...
Less candid was Mussolini when he quoted, and then answered, Winston Churchill's threat (TIME, Dec. 7) of "prolonged, scientific and systematic" bombing of southern Italy. Said Mussolini: "We have . . . shelters that can resist the biggest bombs." Other omissions...