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...Cohen would be a key figure in the State Department. So, apparently, would be able Assistant Secretary William L. Clayton, at whose appointment last December left-wingers had raised a wailing cry of anguish. To Will Clayton, in Jimmy Byrnes's first week, went new duties. He was appointed U.S. member of the slow-moving United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Council, which was bitterly in need of Businessman Clayton's energy and hard-headed smartness...
...barrage was laying in some white puffs amid the jungle green. We had been at general quarters since dawn and the machine-gun bursts from the shore side told of men fighting and dying there. But to the machinist's mate sitting alone in the quiet of his anguish, the war and all its noises had faded away. The war had lost its meaning. Everything he had been trained for had lost its meaning. "The best man on the ship" had been sabotaged...
...four years wartime restrictions have kept gasoline stations closed tight, after 7 p.m. every weekday and all day Sundays - a welcome relief to filling-station men who used to work 18-hour days and seven-day weeks. Their anguish, when the Government lifted the wartime curb last week, was enormous. Promptly, Manitoba's Automotive Trades Association, representing 90% of the gas stations in the province, bowed to the new fondness for restrictions, voted to stick to war time hours...
They knew, as well as anyone, that the Seventh War Loan drive was primarily a campaign against inflation. But support by the public would also demonstrate the nation's will to see the conflict through. To the leaders of the armed forces this was important. They anticipated the anguish which would arise when the people, now celebrating a victory, came face to face with new griefs and separations. They also knew, as military men, the importance of giving the last enemy no rest, or time to entrench himself against the final onslaught. Delay would raise the cost in American...
...pictures have understood so poetically such matters as the beauty and meaning of lighting the first fire in a new home; of using all your strength and sense in hard work and watching the tangible result; of cooking and eating the meat you have hunted and killed; or the anguish of watching all your hopes struck flat by one spasm...