Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second-day headline: TOWNS RALLY TO SAVE JERSEY G.I. There were interviews with town cops, who didn't remember Joey ever causing them any trouble. Other headlines: PLEAS FOR HICSWA KEEPING WIRES HOT . . . LEGION, V.F.W. JOIN FIGHT...
Other G.I.s demonstrated in Honolulu. In Paris several hundred paraded down the Champs Elysées waving magnesium flares and yelling "scab" and "slacker" at soldiers who declined to join the mob. In London 500 soldiers met in Grosvenor Square. When a sergeant bellowed: "Do you know who we got on this side [of the Atlantic]?" they roared back: "Eleanor!" A delegation marched to Claridge's Hotel, where Eleanor Roosevelt had arrived for the UNO conference, and demanded that she help them. They said she promised...
Married. Major Benjamin Welles, 29, bonvivacious elder son of sobersided Sumner Welles, and prewar New York Timesm&n., soon to join the Times's China staff; and Cynthia Monteith Aitken, 28, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
Somehow the United Nations (and defeated countries who aspire to join later) must try to adopt realistic budgets, stabilize prices and wages, bring exports & imports into reasonable balance-all factors affecting the purchasing power of currency. If they succeed, the Fund can help them. If they fail, the Fund offers no remedy, and Tory M.P. Oliver Lyttelton's quip will hold true: "It is not the least good putting up a mosquito net to try to keep out a charge of wild elephants...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who left a comfortable senatorial seat to join the fight in Europe, was out of the army as a Lieutenant Colonel and back on his Massachusetts farm, drafting a public speech for next month's delivery. On future plans he was virtually mum: "I haven't ruled anything out or anything...