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This week an executive order is expected to put the law into actual operation. It will also name a requisitioning tsar, probably tough-minded Brigadier General Philip B. Fleming, hitherto Wages & Hours administrator. OPMites eagerly awaited the order to see whether Administrator Fleming would be given real power to deal with non-cooperators...
...France situations in the Atlantic and Pacific began to arise, situations which had never been anticipated at the time of the passing of the Neutrality Act. "Even isolationists were forced to recognize the existence of a threat to American safety." Through acts of Congress, presidential proclamations and legal opinions, hitherto forbidden shipping areas were whittled away and aid to Britain became a reality instead of a dream...
...punch he requested is called "The Green Dragon," and its ingredients, hitherto kept secret, are as follows: 2 gal. pure grain alcohol; 2 gal. luke warm water; 1 pt. rum flavoring; 2 qt. cointreau; 2 qt. brandy; 3 qt. iced tea; 1 gal. charged water; 1 gal. ginger ale; and 4 gal. grapefruit juice...
...also overlooked the vast majority of the youth of this country who have never had the privilege of attending such schools. . . . When this war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work to establish a state of society where the advantages and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed only by the few, shall be far more widely shared by the men and the youth of the nation as a whole" (TIME, Feb. 17). But Old Harrovians are still able to take such heterodoxy-from Winston Churchill. He is, after all, an Old Harrovian himself, a present...
This was Woollcott speaking from London last week on CBS's evening news roundup. In what sense Alexander Woollcott's life had hitherto been cast amid perils was not explained; but there was no doubt that the Town Crier was in character. Besides candy for a Lady, his presents (carried over with his person on a British warship) included 45 pairs of silk stockings, three dozen lipsticks, "yes, and bobby pins...