Word: brass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...messages decoded by "Magic" were seen by only a few top brass hats, were not always shown to the President, were not sent to commanders in the field at all. (The Army & Navy were afraid the Japs might learn their secret...
...itself with limiting flight pay to officers whose duties require regular flying and those who must fly to retain "primary technical skill." By Jan. 3, the War and Navy Departments must submit recommendations for revising all forms of hazard pay, including that given to submariners (also 50% added). The brass would like to save their own flight skins, but may have to sacrifice some in a compromise to let the hard-flying lower ranks keep theirs intact...
...during the reading of the indictment. Hermann Göring, whom most of them tacitly accepted as their "Führer," had also managed to salvage his vastly deceptive joviality (he graciously gave his autograph to a U.S. Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body. The uniform was obviously good for his morale. He wore it proudly, shunning the civvies G.I.s had presented to him with the note: "Dear Hermann, if you lose, please return the suit...
Victors & Vanquished. Next day the accused passed before the judges, entering their fervent pleas of "not guilty." It was clear that the men whose brass-knuckle philosophy had brushed aside not only legalisms but law itself would seek refuge in legalistic arguments. The defense presented a motion "in re Göring et al," questioning the legal basis of the trial, which was promptly dismissed by the bench. The main defense points...
Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky" Cantata (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, Jennie Tourel and the Westminster Choir; Columbia, 10 sides). Russia's greatest living composer shuttles from Gregorian chants to jazzy brass fanfares in this expanded, concert-hall version of his score for a Sergei Eisenstein film. Performance: good...