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Some of the missionaries took a great interest in radio, but radio would be a cultural influence for the natives. A half-dozen bumptious young men of God arrived a few years ago, and tried to recruit the rest of the mission staff for Naziism. But what-if the stories were true- could be funnier than a potbellied native youngster, ramming out his hand in a ludicrous Heil? The few Australian colonials at Salamaua, Lae and Port Moresby found it very hard to worry about Finschhafen...
...bumptious Mr. Guthrie bounced out, he bounced a rock off U.S. industry's head. He accused woolen and cotton manufacturers, carpet makers, nylon and rayon makers, leathermen of failing to cooperate in war work. Next day he denied that he was sore at the manufacturers, said that he had resigned "because of the conditions that exist within the WPB." There was too much inside opposition, said he, to a "really all-out effort...
...bickering went on. The storm center was bumptious young Walter P. Reuther, who devised labor's 1940 Reuther Plan for pooling industry facilities for airplane production. The management men admitted that Reuther had great ability,* hinted that they would be glad to welcome him as an individual into management's ranks. But they did not want him running the show as a union leader...
...Burma border. > A.P.'s 34-year-old Larry Allen, now back with the British Mediterranean fleet, turned in his masterpiece with the story of the torpedoed British cruiser Galatea, which he survived by a near-miracle on Dec. 16. > From Free China U.P.'s Karl Eskelund, lean, bumptious Far Eastern veteran, sent out the first report of what happened to U.S. and British newsmen in Shanghai. Correspondent Eskelund and his pretty Chinese wife Paula slipped out of Shanghai the day (Dec. 21) that Jap police started rounding up U.S. and British "foreigners." A Chinese guide led them...
...Most surprising finding: although Progressive pupils are generally supposed to be undisciplined and bumptious, in this experiment they actually turned out to have more respect for school authority than their contemporaries...