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Sen orders arrest of 8 missing members to ensure quorum; Sen McKellar forced to attend by deputy sgt-at-arms; Bilbo resumes debate; out-of-town Sens ordered to return
At 8:30 A. M. yesterday the official thermometers of the city recorded the temperature at 26 degrees, the lowest mark so far this season. Indications last night were that there would be a further decline to 18 degrees today and possibly 15 in the suburbs.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14 -- Penn's football team marched up and down Franklin Field today and got exactly nowhere against a Penn State eleven that definitely was "up" for the thirty-ninth battle in this series. Every time
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- Warships of the United States and Japanese fleets are fighting in a series of engagements that began Thursday night (Solomons time) in the Solomons area, the Navy announced today.
fresh US troops reptd pouring into North Africa along Casablanca-Algiers coast
1942Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor[†]
Daniel Moses Barenboim is an Argentine-Israeli classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin, who also has Spanish and Palestinian citizenship. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.
1942Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (born 1908)[†]
Annemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist and photographer. Her bisexual mother brought her up in a masculine style, and her androgynous image suited the bohemian Berlin society of the time, in which she indulged enthusiastically. Her anti-fascist campaigning forced her into exile, where she became close to the family of novelist Thomas Mann. She would live much of her life abroad as a photo-journalist, embarking on many lesbian relationships, and experiencing a growing morphine addiction. In America, the young Carson McCullers was infatuated with Schwarzenbach, to whom she dedicated Reflections in a Golden Eye. Schwarzenbach reported on the early events of World War II, but died of a head injury, following a fall.
1942World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.