Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drums go bang and the cymbals clang And the top brass blaze away, McCarthy plays the big baboon And Stevens jades away. The country's in hysterics, Such tunes were never heard. Molotov sits in the grandstand And applauds the discordant play...
...Navy Chief of Staff, penned their signatures with reservations. They signed because President Eisenhower had said that he did not want split papers coming from the Joint Chiefs. Then both called at the White House to register their personal objection to the emphasis on air power. After that, the brass and the press agents in both the Army and the Navy set out to attack the new policy by land...
Private Schine (who accepted the rough and the smooth with good grace) suddenly found his privileges curtailed. The Army report made it clear that whole brigades of high Army brass had wasted a disturbing amount of time over Schine. And it had even more interesting personal facets...
...Severe Disappointment. Since Bidault had also accepted the plan "en principe," Adenauer expected to get matters moving in the direction of a brass-tacks settlement. This would give Bidault and Premier Laniel a garland of good news with which to deck their demand for a parliamentary vote on EDC. But Bidault last week produced a new memorandum and said Germany would have to accept it. Its major new provision: no trade preferment for West Germany in the Saar until the common market for Europe is well under way. This meant granting Paris an indefinite veto over German trading rights...
...Communists read L'Unità for more than news. They read it to find which way the party expects them to jump. Last week L'Unità itself was jumping for joy. After winding up its 30th anniversary celebration, including circulation-building, mass meetings addressed by party brass and "medals of honor" for widows and children of devoted L'Unità workers, the paper got another circulation boost from the Wilma Montesi scandal (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beamed one of L'Unità's top executives: "L'Unità is absolutely the biggest Communist newspaper...