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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First to break a hole at St. Lô for the Third Army to pour through-the First Army...
According to TIME [Sept. 29], Editor Ed Leech ordered Li'l Abner dropped from the Pittsburgh Press because . . . "we don't think it is good editing or sound citizenship to picture the Senate as an assemblage of crooks . . . and undesirables. In addition the continuity contained a double-meaning statement so obvious that we considered it vulgar...
Except for its timing, the ruling was not unexpected. It came on the second day of the American Federation of Labor's convention in San Francisco, and it upset John L. Lewis' plan to make defiance of the oath his personal battle cry. In Cincinnati, Senator Robert A. Taft said that the Board's ruling was "certainly not in conflict with the intention of Congress...
...gambled on a "green winter" and spectacularly lost. Since then most Britons have had less than no use for "Manny" Shinwell, but the Communists and the coal miners still love him. The Communist secretary of the Mineworkers' Union, Arthur Horner, tried to prevent his removal. Said "li'l Arthur," darkly: "I hope that some men who are popular with the miners and workers will not be sacrificed to please the Tories and Big Business." But when he saw that Attlee's hand was not to be stayed, Horner knuckled under: "We will work with Mr. Gaitskell [Shinwell...
...Terre cynically exploits the Communist farm line as against the city line laid down by L'Humanité of Paris. For example, L'Humanité said on Sept. 25: "In April, the Communists were in the Government, and butter cost 255 .francs a pound. Today the Communists are no longer in the Government, and butter costs 370 francs a pound. Now do you understand why you are hungry...