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...Hold Onto Your Chairs." Then the Prime Minister peeled off his political jacket and jabbed at his enemies. Some of the jabs: "I want to talk about London's wonderful [war] record-would you like to boo that?"; "The winners cheer and the beaten boo"; "You ask for my policy? I'll tell you-it is to beat Japan first." Talking about the prewar building of 350,000 houses a year, Churchill said: "Hold onto your chairs. This is going to be one you don't like-two-thirds of those [houses] were built by private enterprise...
...except their twirlers, the Tigers and Yankees were several lengths in front of the field. With every club congratulating itself on at least one star pitcher, 43 of 191 games were shutouts. The big names: Newhouser, Borowy, Leonard, Christopher-and an easygoing, hearty-eating rookie from Mississippi named Dave ("Boo") Ferriss...
...while. Out in Roslindale, some of the boys had quite a time. The Copley Square Officers' Club was the stamping ground for Fred Jennings and his Navy nurse, as well as Bob (please-call-me" Bob") Bisbe. Over an Arlington Street at the Club, were Kris Krismanich and Boo Lampher making merry--among others...
Public reaction in Argentina was a deepening of dislike for the U.S. Franklin Roosevelt had hopefully said that "the vast majority of the people of Argentina have remained steadfast in their faith in their own free, democratic traditions." But a Buenos Aires audience rose to boo and catcall insults when Hull appeared in a newsreel shot of the Dumbarton Oaks conference...
...strength of this "rescindist" movement convinced U.A.W. officials that they had better not try to handle the situation alone. They called in suave, spellbinding1 C.I.O. President Philip Murray. Before he even mentioned the no-strike pledge, Philip Murray was being loudly booed. Murray raised his hand for silence. Calmly and politely he asked the convention not to boo. Then he warned the quiet audience that reneging on the no-strike pledge might cause the union to crash beneath irate public opinion...