Word: jailbirds
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...years from now Tom Hall will be a jailbird. We can win the war without his help. But we shall need his help, and the help of other men like him, in the tremendous job of post-war reconstruction. His private tragedy is apparent; it will be almost equalled by our own loss...
...jailbird himself, Homer Price was superintendent of the Pen's machine shop. Thither last spring went a representative of Pump Engineering with the offer of a $30,000 subcontract. Homer Price agreed, took a leave of absence, borrowed $3,000, began converting his hillside home into a machine shop. Since precision machinery for aircraft parts was nowhere to be found, he made...
...Astaire) is caught in the draft and, unable to control his feet or his temper, becomes a permanent resident of the camp guardhouse. His favorite chorine (Miss Hayworth) turns up at camp in the wake of an Army officer (John Hubbard). She eventually solves everything by marrying the jailbird. Comic honors go to swivel-tongued Cliff Nazarro, double-talker extraordinary, who spreads utter confusion whenever he opens his mouth. The picture is well done and well directed...
...Denver she got a job as housekeeper to prosperous Harry Whitlock, a widower who lived with his mother and son. Shortly thereafter his mother died of a gastric ailment. Unsuspecting Mr. Whitlock married his jailbird housekeeper and took out an insurance policy in her favor. But police had found the trusty who had helped her escape. Lyda read about it in the newspapers and left town. Police caught her in Topeka, Kans. Whitlock got an annulment of their marriage...
From Minister for Supplies Sean F. Lemass fortnight ago Eire got some very straight and very bad news. Coming at a time when official Dublin buzzed with the report that Sean Russell, the old jailbird head of the long suppressed, British-hating Irish Republican Army, was in Berlin, his words carried an ominous significance. Said he: "Rights alone are poor protection for small states when great empires go to war. Within a few weeks or a few months a crisis will come, and with it the greatest danger to our nation...