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...Abject Surrender. By this time Louis Johnson had also thrust his bald skull into another angry beehive. At a friendly little luncheon for a handful of Washington newsmen, he incautiously confirmed some of John Sullivan's worst fears. The newsmen came away with the distinct impression that Johnson was intending to absorb all of Marine Corps aviation into the Air Force or the Navy or both, and that a directive to that effect was already in the works...
...Good Spanking. Well before wrathful Sancho's ultimatum expired, Serrano penned him an abject note of apology: "I confirm all my profound esteem of you as a founder of the Falange and as a man." Honor satisfied and the duel off, Sancho still growled: "Serrano talks too much. He will step on my feet again. Next time I will not send friends. I will call on him myself ... I was not after a letter of apology or a duel. We do not fight duels any more in Spain. What I wanted was a good solid pretext to give Serrano...
University students must provide an answer to the Cassandras, the President asserted, by supplying intellectual and moral courage. "One can hardly maintain that we are likely to solve our problems if we approach them in a spirit of abject fear...
...Hughes: "On the face of it, no one knows how the Western powers are going to hold Berlin. In a deeper sense, the Russians have already lost it. A great power that is reduced to the savage expedient of trying to starve a city into submission has confessed its abject defeat in trying to win the people's allegiance. The battle has fallen from the level of the brain to the level of the belly; above the belly, the Russians no longer pretend to offer anything...
...livestock men had lost heavily. But for the strikers it was a near disaster. They had lost about $40 million in wages. Many stood to lose their jobs if it was proved that they had taken part in violence. At the end, the strikers had only a choice of abject surrender or wrecking their union by continuing an 'unpopular, losing fight. It was Labor's most painful beating on the postwar strike front...