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...always supposed that this motto was always credited to James Lawrence and that he was supposed to have said it during the War of 1812 and the battle between the Chesapeake, which he commanded, and the British ship Shannon, in which his ship was taken and he lost his life. Did Perry then have flags made, bearing this motto, for his own use ? It seems to me that the words ascribed to Perry ran: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours...
...YOUR PICTURE OF GROTESQUELY PAINTED "DEMON MASKS" (TIME, NOV. 9) NEGLECTED TO SAY THAT IT WAS TAKEN AT THE TEXAS PLANT OF NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION. AS ONE OF ITS WORKERS I KNOW THAT NORTH AMERICAN IS LIVING UP TO ITS MOTTO "TO KEEP 'EM FLYING GET 'EM BUILT...
Though Alexander had the misfortune to command two retreats (Dunkirk was the other), in both cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard...
Center of the revolution was big, bald Engineer Henry J. Kaiser, whose motto has always been: Who can't? Kaiser had gone to Washington with a big, bold plan to build 5,000 cargo planes and lick the shipping shortage-the kind of vast, impossible vision that Americans love. At Washington's hands, the vision had suffered shabby treatment...
...Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...