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Arthur Lane had been ambassador to the London Poles since September, 1944, when he was named by Franklin Roosevelt in response to political clamor that something be done to pacify the Polish vote...
Sioux and their friends were quick to clamor for payment: by 1892 the U.S. Government had paid a quarter of a million dollars in damages. But even this left 2,298 horses still unpaid for. The case wore on, collecting exotic language. Original claimants had names like Dewey Distribution, Take Her Leggins Off, Lizzie Eagle Louse, Henry Tobacco Sack and George No Belly. Their heirs had names like Susie Sounding Side, Johnson Scabby Face, Bennie Bear Lies Down...
Screams in the Subway. "Then a heavy bomb crashed through the tunnel roof . . . and a wave of cold air, followed by dust, swept over us. In the distance someone yelled for a doctor. The clamor for help was taken up by many voices, which were drowned in the next wave of bombs, more fearful than the first. 'For heaven's sake, stop it!' a woman screamed somewhere in the darkness. 'Shut up with that,' broke in a rough man's voice. A stir ran through the tightly packed people...
...much of the combing-out job is hardheaded, old (68) Major General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, veteran of the Spanish war. Gasser, serving in the Office of Civilian Defense in the early, jittery days of the war, met the civilian clamor for gas masks, fire-fighting apparatus, etc. with a hardboiled: "The military comes first. The civilians will have to get along as best they can." Over a year and a half ago, General Gasser charged into the Army's combing-out job, leading 14 "personnel audit" teams...
...Year's calendar: a "tea for three" meeting with Messrs. Churchill and Stalin. The Washington word was that the Big Three would get together soon after Mr. Roosevelt's Term IV inauguration on Jan. 20. It would not be too soon. During the past fortnight, a clamor of criticism against U.S. diplomacy has swelled into an outraged chorus. Its theme: the U.S. has been following a wavering diplomatic course with its allies, now burning its fingers with well-meant advice, now dusting its hands of Europe's problems...