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...Naktong River front, two companies of Britain's proud Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders took Hill 282, tried to hold on against severe Red fire. When ammunition ran low, the officer in command, Major Kenneth Muir, moved among his men, cheering them on. U.S. planes flew over to lend a hand. But the air strike was short of the target, fell instead on Muir's men. When it was over, only 30 effectives remained. The demoralized men withdrew down the hillside. Then, undaunted Major Muir said: "I'll take them up again, and this time we'll stay...
...Picked up a telephone and called Herbert Hoover in New York. "Mr. President, this is Harry Truman," said Harry Truman. He asked him (and Hoover agreed) to lend his prestige in appealing for the grain needed by famine-threatened India (TIME, Feb. 12). This week Truman formally asked Congress for authority to ship India the 2,000,000 tons of grain...
...with those of the century. He spent them in a gay round of European travels with rich friends. "One must get all the pleasure out of life that is possible," he wrote his mother. "I suppose you couldn't possibly either send me my allowance in advance or lend me about 15 pounds so that I can square this beastly hotel off and get my things...
...sounded innocuous-it took two nations to start a war; it was all right to be firm with Russia, but we must lead the way in creating an atmosphere of wanting world peace. This aim seemed "praiseworthy" to Dr. Mann, and he wrote that he would be delighted to lend his name, but did not feel he could help as an organizer. That was the last he had heard until the announcement appeared...
...February of 1941, President Conant went to Washington to support the pending Lend Lease bill before a Senate committee. He favored any and all measures necessary to defeat the Axis powers, saying that "there can be no peace" with the powers of totalitarianism as strong and power-hungry as they are. Before the bill was passed, 68 faculty members sent a resolution to Congress denouncing the measure as a needless curtailing of popular government. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Frederick Merk, professor of History, were among the signers...