Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brookline High School, he was awarded the Charles W. Holtzer scholarship for excellence in printing. Ernie's first position after graduation was that of gymnasium instructor at the M--School for girls in Boston. From there he went to the Crimson Printing Company where the worked up from a minor job to one of the more important positions in the firm...
...appropriate to the "grim business" of civilian defense. It should all be put under the jurisdiction of the War Department, said Mr. Lippmann. "The facts of the situation, and the morale of the people require lucid and authoritative commands." Mrs. Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor official in her husband's Government. Mr. LaGuardia "should resign as soon as his successor can be found and installed in the office." Indications were that Mr. Roosevelt thought so too, was getting ready to pluck the Little Flower from...
Crowded, madhouse Washington, whose population jumped 100,000 in the last year and will gain another 40,000 wartime employes in the next six months, will soon get minor relief...
Anti-aircraft barrages also knock out unwary civilians. The fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...
Franck: Symphony in D Minor (Two recordings: Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Columbia; 10 sides; and Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony; Victor; 10 sides). Both jobs on this much-played symphony are good; the Victor is larger in scale...