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...this war at least, many an Air Forces officer hopes that Bob Lovett will be able to get self-rule for the air arm. They know what will happen if he does not. The hue & cry for a separate arm, stilled by request of the War Department General Staff few weeks ago (while two bills for separation lay in Congress) will go up again, louder and clearer than ever before...
...week's end a hue & cry had been set up for Paasikivi. A Stockholm report said old apple-chinned Juho had gone to Moscow to negotiate a peace directly with Moscow. Juho was sent with Väinö Tanner to Moscow in 1939 before the first Finnish-Soviet war. On that occasion the belly-laughing banker had been given the job of delaying the negotiations as much as possible, so the Finns would get better terms. In most of the talks, while Tanner and Viacheslav Molotov did the hard-headed bargaining, Paasikivi swapped jokes with Stalin and used...
...endowed college from Boston to Los Angeles. If they never forget that their movement is in pitiful infancy until they achieve such a scale, there is some hope for idealism. The proposed national monthly magazine is the obvious vehicle for expansion. Let it not be all of a Crimson hue...
This suspicion is all the more lively when their suggestions are interlarded with glaring mis-representation, name-calling, outrageous distortion, and time-worn psychological tricks of an Axis hue...
Rather a noble head, white hair and beard, eyes frosty blue, voice alternately brusque or urbane, and he walked always in a silvery gray suit the hue of his cigar ashes. Best seen, he was in the orderly disorder of his speckless, spotless study of a Winter's morning, back to a crackling blaze in the white marble fireplace, drinking strong coffee, smoking a long black cigar and laying down the philological law. "Then," said a devotee, "the old man was sublime...