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...York City's famed Park Commissioner Robert Moses does not like criticism. Like his boss, Fiorello LaGuardia, he has been long in office, is conscious that he has served the public well, is self-righteous, cantankerous, and never admits that he is mistaken. Like other cantankerously honest men, he enjoys being rude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Pyrrhic Humor | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...wits in the battalion is working on a treatise entitled, "Mistaken identify, or the Greyhound drivers get shoulder boards," but any similarity between this literary effort and a current Alnav is to be denied...

Author: By Mids E. T. long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 4/14/1944 | See Source »

There are other roses in Tojo's garden, but none so fair as Tokyo. Like her, they remain unidentified. Sometimes they are mistaken for her. They include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By Any Other Name | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Dangerous Living. Today the infantry comprises less than a fifth of the U.S. Army (the Air Forces and the Service Forces both exceed it in manpower). Public appreciation of the infantry has lagged far behind, partly due to the mistaken notion that the Air Forces had the most dangerous job. No less an authority than Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, chief of Army Ground Forces, is responsible for the statement that thus far in World War II the infantry takes "more than half our total battle losses." The infantryman also "endures great hardships, he gets more tired, he sleeps less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - INFANTRY: Credit for Doughboy | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Congressman Robert Hale (Maine, R.) chatted with Lord Halifax at a British Embassy tea, felt himself pinched in the rear, turned gravely, found a woman who babbled that she had mistaken him for Justice Felix Frankfurter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fathers | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

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