Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week in the lively, mimeographed pages of the News. The monkey and the anteater are parts of the act. So is his official pseudonym in the News: El Toro Ferdiliza. And so are the screwy lines which stud Editor Doster's paper (OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: SLAPHAPPY. OUR MOTTO: "Blessed be he who bloweth hsi own horn, for his'n shall be blowed...
...took over. She won. Headstrong as they come, she says: "I'm doing all right with the farm and I intend to run the papers the same way. ... My dad once said that if you want to do a thing, you can, and that's my motto...
...Plus-Four." If bad management was again carving over Democracy's door the bitter motto, "Too little & too late," immediate responsibility lay on the Roosevelt War Cabinet-the Secretaries of State, War, Navy and Treasury-and the President's manager of the Lend-Lease program, Harry Hopkins. For one reason or another each of them has drawbacks as a manager and administrator of a war effort...
...commemorating their common saint, a man who lived only that we may learn the Golden Rule--shameful because a man of dark hue is publicly shunned in a place devoted to the pursuit of truth and culture, a place where intellect raises man from his smallness--shameful because our motto so brazenly flaunts itself now, as obvious camouflage--"Erudito et religio!"--we have struck our colors, once more, to convention and prejudice! --Duke University Chronicle, April 4, 1941. THE HERMIT PLACE, by Mark Schorer. Random House, New York...
...staff has increased to 24, whose job is to get Army news and make it available. Editor in chief under General Richardson is witty Lieut. Colonel Stanley Grogan, who worked for several New England papers and A. P., served six years as chief of Army Information in Manhattan. His motto is: "Bigger and better coverage of the War Department." Among his smart new assistants (most of whom retain civilian status) are news-wise professionals from such papers as the Kansas City Star and the New York Times. Transferred to General Richardson is West Point's Public Relations Officer Lieut...