Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oscar Sidney Cox, 36, a tall, tweedy, drawling Yankee lawyer from Portland, Me., has a formal job in the Justice Department (where he is now helping prosecute the eight Nazi saboteurs) and an even bigger sideline as general counsel on Lend-Lease. He drafted the original Lend-Lease bill, has since helped administer it. He scrapes up supplies, gets them shipped as often as he can. A government career man since 1938, Oscar Cox has had many bosses in the Capital: they all call him "the smartest damn lawyer in Washington...
...worthy families hover in village doorways after tea, to chat with passing soldiers, free from camp for the evening. Country hedgerows echo in the dusk with laughter and new rustlings. In factory canteens, men and women in mutually greasy trousers lunch together by accident, arrange without benefit of formal introductions to dine more quietly elsewhere. At the "flicks" (movies), neighbors who have never seen each other hold hands. Adjoining seats in busses, trams and trains are excuse enough for a conversation which may lead to a quick drink, or maybe...
James M. Landis made public last week his second formal report on the thankless job he took over last February-running the Office of Civilian Defense. Six months ago he had been gaunt; now he was haggard. But after those six months of dogged work, in an office which last winter housed the worst of all Washington's administrative messes, he could report some accomplishments. OCD was now functioning up to the full measure of its authority, advising State and city defense councils how to combat gas, destruction, fire, panic, and giving them the necessary material...
...Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when the Nazis came.) But the next week she was dancing a cockney tango with some of England's "little people" in an East...
...Russians were weak enough, so weak that they passively relinquished what they could not defend. But the Japs were as yet none too strong, certainly not strong enough to withstand the U.S. diplomatic pressure which was soon turned upon them. Because of this pressure, they withdrew their armies, returned formal sovereignty over the invaded territory to Russia, kept some trading concessions-and never forgave the U.S. Once again, just as in the earlier Russo-Japanese War's aftermath, the U.S., all unknowing, had indelibly-imprinted itself in Japanese minds as an enemy of Japan in Asia...