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...Navy and the principal reason for his commanding the wartime Navy. Few men in peace or war have known "Rey" King well enough to find the warm self behind his hard, hazel eyes. Well does he know that others in the Navy hold him to be a brutal and forthright man, savage in his judgments and merciless in his expression of them, uncompromising and often extreme in his demands upon his subordinates, a man who can be as forbidding in family crises as he is on a bridge or at a Navy desk...
...Allies all the way down to Cape Town. Admiral Darlan broadcast the announcement that French West Africa and Dakar had come "freely under my orders." Dakar had been won at last and after a bloodless battle. Despite official fears that press comments less brutal than President Roosevelt's forthright reference to the renegade admiral might upset the apple cart, Darlan apparently was still acting in accord with General Eisenhower's plans...
...forthright statement that went far toward clarifying the stand of the Catholic Church in World War II was issued last week by the Church's Archbishops and Bishops of the U.S. In the most resounding language yet used by an important Catholic hierarchy, the Bishops declared that America was fighting a righteous war "in the defense of life and right," and urged all Catholics to unite Dec. 8 "in praying for a victory and for a peace acceptable...
Robert Hale, forthright Portland (Me.) lawyer, former Rhodes Scholar, former State representative, member of a family that has represented Maine in the U.S. Senate almost continuously since 1881. An all-out supporter of the Roosevelt foreign policy, Republican Robert Hale, 52, had to defend himself in the election against an article he wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1936 entitled: But I, Too, Hate Roosevelt* revived by toothy Democrat Louis J. Brann. Maine's voters liked Bale's defense: "I am probably the most outspoken advocate in Maine of President Roosevelt's foreign policies. Also...
Ever since stocky James J. Donovan was elected mayor of the oil-refinery town of Bayonne on a "Home Rule-Not Hague Rule" platform, he has had trouble with Hague's stooges in the county. Soon after Donovan lined up with forthright Governor Charles Edison in the fight against Hague over railroad-tax laws, the county prosecutor began making vice raids in Bayonne. Then Donovan was indicted by a grand jury for misconduct in office...