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...Alexander meeting). But it was a Pyrrhic victory. Before he gave back the radio, the General had made plain that he expected strict adherence to the military line. Over the newsmen was the threat that their stories, censored for fact at the source, would be recensored at Naples to jibe with Army policy. That policy obviously would be to even up the bad with the good, to emphasize the hunky-dory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Takes Anzio | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...latest "contribution" to the war effort is last Friday's hammy play on words, whereby he indirectly refers to Naval Supply Officers as "those cellophaned commissioned male WAVES," harping on an isolated story be heard from somebody who heard it from somebody else. It reminds us of that cheap jibe at the morality of the WAVES delivered by another sheddy "newsman," which served only to make the WACS and WAVES recruiting job that much tougher...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

This treatment did not jibe with the official Japanese propaganda line. The Japs had a slogan: Asia Raya, Asia Melindung, Asia Pemimpin, which means, "Greater Asia, Cooperative Asia, Harmonious Asia." The Japs tried to convince the Javanese that the white man was through. Even Dutch Nazis, who had been pining in Dutch concentration camps before the invasion and now thought their fortunes would be brighter, were flung back into camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BEWARE, THERE IS AMERICA | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...that is brilliant and flashy, pretty much on the slick side, and he seems to be the only one of the Leopold Auer brood of violinists who has developed this way. It would be interesting to compare his concert Sunday with the old recording, and if the two jibe, to draw interesting and appropriate conclusions on the state of musical taste in Europe, where Huberman has enjoyed such fame...

Author: By Janse Barich, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/30/1941 | See Source »

...above proposals are ever going to be acted upon now is the proper time, when new schemes are being tried out. Both of them seem to jibe with the aime of giving the student full value in food and atmosphere for his meal dollar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Calorite Dollar | 9/27/1941 | See Source »

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