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...Pauley had a claim to a good job. Big, hulking Ed Pauley, operating oilman (Petrol Corp.) and fast-moving dealer in California oil properties, was a faithful, hard-working political war horse - treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee, a crack money-raiser, a tried & trusted Truman friend to boot. But there were few cheers in Washington last week when Harry Tru man announced that Ed Pauley was to be the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador...
...second inning, the visitors, already behind 3 to 0, pushed across their first run. Left fielder Mel Allen opened the inning by singling to short, and advanced to second on the shortstop's boot...
...rush, he never lost his ingrained concern for the welfare of his troops. When two types of Arctic boot were sent to Alaska, he put a boot of one type on his right foot, the other on his left, and went for long hikes in rock and ice to see for himself which was better for the men. When two kinds of sleeping bags were ready for issue, he tried each for a night outdoors, in 60-below-zero weather...
First there was able, boot-tough Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, boss of the Army Service Forces. With ever more & more men to feed, General Somervell demanded more & more food. The Army, which already feeds part of the French and Italian armies, prisoners of war, etc., recently added 300,000 liberated Philippine Scouts to its chow line. General Somervell was out for all he needed, and he needed...
...little Soviet." About the best anyone would predict for the model community, or corporation, or self-liquidating cooperative, or whatever it was, was a short and futile life. By last week they had changed their views. Rio Farms was a capitalistic enterprise, after all, and a paying one to boot...