Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Solomons had dropped off the front page; the big news was a Republican come-back greater than even G.O.P. stalwarts had hoped; so we scrapped the Australian covers that were printed and substituted a painting of Republican Tom Dewey...
...Friday Dewey was half forgotten as the full magnitude of the Anglo-American victory in Egypt was revealed. So 800,000 Dewey covers followed the Australian to the old paper mill; and we ordered a new set of covers on double time-picturing Admiral Harwood, the British Naval Commander at Alexandria...
...MacArthur's surge had its beginnings in adversity last September, when the Japs routed Australian troops in the New Guinea mountains and pushed within 32 miles of Port Moresby, the key which locked the door against an invasion of Australia. For six months U.S. infantry troops had been jungle-training in Australia. The problem was how to get them to New Guinea from Australian bases 600 miles away...
Harry Bridges, Australian-born leader of the West Coast longshoremen's union, alternately damned as an alien Communist and praised as a dynamic chief of wartime labor, will speak in Emerson D tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Under the auspices of the Liberal Union and the Harvard Teachers Union, the talk will be on "Labor...
Baldwin also reported that Australian labor was loafing on its war job. Army Minister Francis Forde, Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt erupted, denounced Baldwin, denied his charges. General MacArthur, incidentally disowning any political ambitions (see p. 21), duly announced he had received the utmost cooperation. But informed observers judged Baldwin was not far wrong, guessed the recent improvement of news from New Guinea, including the Allies' recapture of the Jap base at Kokoda, was one sign that Douglas MacArthur was already solving some very serious internal problems. If this was true, Washington had one good reason (among...