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Lady Astor, high-strung, American-born M.P., huffed, puffed and pleaded to no avail when Canadian MPs barred her from her London house, which had been requisitioned for Dominion overseas election headquarters. She was assured that she would be able to get in as soon-as the voting was over-nine days later...
...George's 20 years in America. It is essentially a collection of anecdotes such as an immigrant returned to his homeland might tell to his wondering grandchildren. Few books have ever made the U.S. seem so exotic. The stories were written by Helen Papashvily, George's American-born wife, exactly as he told them, with his florid language and his owlish humor carefully preserved...
...Fifth's most important advance in ten days; by week's end its guns were shelling the city from four-mile range. At the same time vanguard troops, which included the 100th Battalion of tough, American-born Japanese, pried further through the hills, only six and a half miles from the Arno...
...lack of interest is due mainly to U.S. distaste for sitting outdoors in wintry winds and sleet (in Europe fans rarely sit down during a game). The comparative handful of U.S. enthusiasts who follow the sport through its September-to-June season are mostly American-born citizens of foreign parentage who inherited their passion for the fast & furious game. Although U.S. attendance is far below the standard of other countries, U.S. pros are not. One U.S. star who can stand up to any of the world's Internationalists is Big Bill Gonsalves, a Portuguese-American who plays inside-right...
After three months of angling and investigating (through FBI, Army Intelligence, etc.) the Harold L. Ickeses finally got some hired hands for their Maryland farm: American-born Japanese from an Arizona relocation camp. The young wife of the curmudgeon Secretary (see p. 102) had taken care to ask the neighbors how they felt about having Nisei in their midst, got two reactions: 1) approval, 2) inquiries about the chances of getting the same sort of help...