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...Lions Tremble. Fredendall's successor is a tank man. George Patton's favorite motto (expurgated) is "Grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the tail." In 1916 he was a dashing, cocky young cavalryman and aide to "Black Jack" Pershing; in Mexico. When he went to France in World War I he organized the first U.S. tank brigade, returned to study that new wrinkle in modern warfare, and to help develop it when the U.S. Army at last got around to it in a serious...
...pole way up in the air with the dangling ropes-- that is the treat. It is just enough to keep everyone happy. Beneath these dangling ropes is a pit, twelve feet across and five feet deep. The object is to spring the forty yards between obstacles, jump six feet, grab the rope and swing across the chasm to the other side. Another spring of forty feet, another hurdle and then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course provides exactly that. A ladder extends in the air for thirty feet...
...Inspiration. The House Republicans had a sudden inspiration. The Democratic-controlled Ways & Means Committee had fumbled the tax job. Minority Leader Joe Martin called a conference of twelve Republican steering committee members. Their strategy: grab the tax bill when it reaches the House floor, substitute pay-as-you-go reduced to its simplest terms, in a modified version of the Ruml plan. Sense as well as strategy was on their side, for many a disgusted Democrat would not vote for the committee bill. The possibility was not remote that the House might overturn its no-longer-august tax-making committee...
...light of Sir William's new mission, the U.S. could see the deep functional weaknesses of the President's plan. The report sent up by NRPB was a huge grab bag of all the extensive leftover plans which the war had forced the New Deal to shelve, plus a collection of new plans, adding the latest in social theory. There was something in it for everybody, some one thing that might seem politically popular to any group-from giving Labor a voice in management to reducing corporate taxes. Advance notices had called the program the "American Beveridge Plan...
...heads in life jackets. I started counting, but realized there were hundreds so I gave up. The attack must have been a complete surprise for many of the men had not had time to dress. They jumped into the boats with only life jackets, if they had time to grab them...