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Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...
From old-time Democrats, from tried & true party workers, came a clamor about jobs already given out in OPA and WPB. With but few exceptions, top places in these agencies were assigned on a non-political basis. State Democratic leaders choked with wrath when they found regional OPA and WPB offices headed by and staffed with Republicans. This political unorthodoxy extended even to the Solid South: the OPA regional rationing officer (eight States) is Georgia's G.O.P. national committeeman ; Georgia's OPAdministrator campaigned for Willkie in 1940. Said a prominent Missouri Democrat: "Those bureaus [are] all full...
...hear a great deal of clamor from time to time for unity of command. That's a loose term and has come to be widely used by people who don't have the full facts. Actually, many good officers are not qualified or competent to exercise unified command, but we keep on hearing amateurs suggest that some one man be called in to exercise sweeping control over all things military...
Tunisian Maginot Line. When the Fascist Chamber of Deputies began to clamor for French territory, the Packards went to Tunis. Reynolds visited the Berthome (Tunisian Maginot) Line, which "was located between the Libyan frontier and Médenine and consisted mostly of elaborate underground works where whole battalions could hide. There were tank traps and miles of barbed wire, intended specifically to halt cavalry and camel corps. . . . Every oasis was a fortress in itself, complete with machine-gun nests, concrete redoubts, subterranean air-raid shelters, and still more barbed wire entanglements...
...Said that his "foot had slipped once" in permitting announcement of the loss of a U.S. plane carrier in the Solomons eight days before the November elections and before the Japs presumably knew that she had gone down. Public clamor, he said, had led him to announce it then to head off possible later charges that he had with held bad news in view of the elections. The President said this showed that "the conduct of war, with the aim of victory, comes absolutely first...