Word: cols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held up a mid-Manhattan bar. Drawing his gun he jumped from the cab. joined the chase. No hits, no captures. Wrote he in the Sunday Mirror: "The cabbie who picked up two guys on Central Park West didn't get his fare. ... If he will contact the col...
Action was wanted in France, and so the Daladier Cabinet fell (see col. 2). Action was wanted in Britain, and the press put increasing pressure on Prime Minister Chamberlain to form a five-man War Cabinet, with Activist Winston Churchill as lord of land, sea and air forces (see p.22). The Allies were apparently coming to the conclusion that a war of "limited liability" had become a liability. If the next move were up to them; which...
Acclaimed for its explanation of its policy toward the Russo-Finnish war (see col. 3), the British Government (and Parliament) prepared to go home for Easter. One question still weighed on Parliament's collective mind (and on the minds of lots of other people), so the Chamberlain Government briskly addressed itself to relieving the pressure. The question: Were the Allies wise to pursue their seven-month "Sitzkrieg...
...bottom scraped and cannot get through the Panama Canal. Chances were Canada had some men & munitions to be carried before another Australian contingent would be ready or needed, so Halifax seemed a likely spot to send the swift* Mary first. Germany might be launching another U-boat wave (see col. 1), but nothing last week would have better suited the fighting British heart, as well as Mr. Chamberlain's political necessities, than a gesture of defiance...
SIXTY-NINE DIAMONDS - Jeremy Lord -Crime Club ($2). Retired Col. Winston Creevy, arriving in La Jolla, Calif, for fun, can't keep his old British beak out of the murder of M. Duval, an unctuous Belgian with a past in the West End. In London the Yard detects furiously by cable. Creevy's end of it is subtler, and finely handled...