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Labor's stand: N.A.M. President William Porter Witherow had "broken faith with the President of the United States," was "trying to crawl out" from under the industry-labor pact, which would arbitrate all disputes-including the closed shop...
...court seemed unsure of itself. It refused to let Daladier speak of French-Polish military agreements, and ruled that events long antedating the declaration of war were not subject to survey. But the men in Vichy had reason to crawl when Daladier read into the record that in 1934, Petain had refused to strengthen fortifications at Sedan (where German troops first broke through in May 1940), that it was Petain who in 1934 slashed a military appropriation from 600,000,000 to 400,000,000 francs, that the Supreme War Council had refused to consider new types of guns...
...port Yates McDaniel saw "the most beautiful sight I ever expect to see a British destroyer hull down on the horizon, steaming full speed toward the harbor." The destroyer carried them to Batavia, where, for the first time in eleven days, Yates McDaniel could file his story, then crawl into...
...Japanese continued futile resistance to the end with tenaciousness. . . . For some days our troops were able to advance only three to five yards through underbrush that was so thick it was impossible to see an arm's length ahead. Our troops were forced to crawl, inching their rifles forward with their fingers on the triggers...
...walk or ride or crawl...