Large U.S. convoy lands troops in Northern Ireland
By C. R. Cunningham, United Press staff writer
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Aversion to quinine broken by 17th-century quack
By David Dietz, Scripps-Howard science editor
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Ship dodges 3 torpedoes, blasts sub
Freighter’s gun replies to U-boat attack
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Troops avert Pontiac strike
Union calls use of soldiers 'interference’
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Jailed in libel case
Los Angeles, California –
David H. Rathbone, 67-year-old printer, was convicted yesterday of criminally libeling President Roosevelt in pamphlets he published. Judge Ida May Adams sentenced him to 180 days in the county jail and fined him $1,000.
U.S. War Department (May 20, 1942)
General MacArthur’s Headquarters No. 33
Operations were limited to reconnaissance.
Committee votes income tax boost of 2%
Decision is due today on surtax rates; proposed figure viewed as rejection of Roosevelt plan for $25,000 limit on earnings
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Senator Walsh is exonerated
Justice Department calls link to spies baseless
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Wage control method sought by WLB chief
Davis considers setting up ‘yardstick’ standard for outside cases
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One lives to tell about 46-day lifeboat ordeal
Seaman dies, another goes insane and leaps overboard, third drifts on to be rescued
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