Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lieut. Colonel Samuel A. Sandler's study of Army somnambulists [TIME June 18] is unfair to happy, gentle sleepwalkers who are very much interested in women, who never dream of snakes or rabid dogs, or of screaming for Father to come to the rescue. As one of the latter, might I suggest the Colonel withhold further reports until he has studied more than a mere 22 Army men (who probably did not want to join the Army anyway) and try next to include some Navy men, and certainly a Marine or two, whom no one afoot would dare accuse...
...operators; 1,050 to foreign operators (for cash only) ; 1,000 good ships as a "Balanced Reserve Fleet" to be kept in first-class condition but "sterilized" (frozen out of competition), some 2,100 ships of dubious value either kept in a "Residual Reserve" or scrapped. Most of this latter class, presumably, would be Liberty ships, which the Harvard group called uneconomical. (Shipping men consider them economical for hauling low-grade, no-hurry cargoes...
There are two types of Congressmen, as the play's political bass puts it: the passionate one and the sensible one, be, with the latter seeking only re-election. In the same way, there are two sorts of summer stock managers: the one who re-stages the old standbys and the one who experiments with new talent. John Huntington, who first promoted the Margaret Webster "Othello" and the Margaret Webster "Othello" and the current "Dark of the moon," may well have another candidate for Broadway...
...took the French 80 years to get through their revolution. It took us 90 years, including a great Civil War, before we got straightened out after our revolution. You will remember that when our Republic was older than China's is, conditions in this country in the latter part of the War of 1812 were so bad, the corruption and factionalism were so rampant in the Government, inefficiencies in the Army were so notorious, and the administration of affairs was so bad that representatives of the people of New England met in Hartford, Conn, and solemnly voted to secede...
George Albert Smith, 75, goateed Senior Member of his church's Council of the Twelve Apostles, became the eighth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He inherits the mantle of all-powerful Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 954,000 Latter-day Saints...