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...Cloak & Dagger Man. The public learned to watch him after his spectacular trip to North Africa in October 1942. He went by British submarine, made contact with French patriots who eased the way for the November landings, got away to sea again after a ducking in the surf that lost $18,000 in gold. After winning his three stars, at 46, he was one of the youngest U.S. lieutenant generals...
Organized Defamation. " The attempt to cover political acts with a cloak of military necessity in this case will just not go down. Yet certain backstage French interests are trying, under this cloak, to foster their own interests and sabotage the De Gaulle-Giraud union. There is growing evidence that certain interests, fearful of public opinion in favor of General de Gaulle, have deliberately set out to guide, control and change that public opinion as the chief stumbling block in the consummation of their aims...
...Principle's Victory. For two days nothing could be settled. Fantastic incidents, cloak-and-dagger rumors confused the scene. When puffy-eyed, opportunist...
...year-old International Ladies Garment Workers' Union last week pulled off another "first" in the labor movement.* I.L.G.W.U.'s 35,000 cloak & suit workers (one-eighth of its total membership) signed a new five-year contract in which the only major change was a provision for their employers to put $2,000,000 a year into an old-age insurance fund. Under the new agreement, each cloakmaker, at 65, will receive $600 a year-a good deal more than most of them can expect from Federal old-age benefits...
...class is rapidly catching on to the traditions of the NSCS. We learned (the hard way) that the coke-and-cloak room in Briggs is a W-V (S) rendezvous ONLY when no member of the USN is in the building. We guessed we were table conversation after that inauspicious morning of the first lecture when Mr. Ashler started us off with a reprimand and that dark brown look. But now after a little priming and further acquaintance with Longfellow we promise to be a good class and GIVE...