Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of Australia's biggest newspaper chain, Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, spoke of an Australian counteroffensive "that will surprise the Japanese." The War Cabinet conferred with Army & Navy chiefs; Parliament met in secret sessions, and the Prime Minister threatened to punish any member who blabbed. "I am a man or a mouse," said Mr. Curtin, "and if I'm a mouse they can throw me out of office...
...last week Churchill's star was ready to drop below the Australian horizon. His strongest Australian supporter, Publisher Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch who would like to be the Commonwealth representative in the War Cabinet, thundered from London to his Melbourne Herald: "The Dominions cannot afford to be bound by decisions taken as at present. It is largely a matter of Mr. Churchill himself. ... Mr. Churchill ... would stoutly dissent from the view he is Atlantic-minded, but nobody can claim he has handled the Dominions well or shown breadth of sympathy...
Instead of Boches to greet the Canadians there had been a crowd of bright-faced, happy Russians. Describing the scene on his return to London, 28-year-old Major W. S. Murdoch painted a cheery picture. "Crowds of people rushed towards us along the streets leading from the beach -men, women and children all talking and laughing at once, dogs leaping and barking around them. . . . The locals, madly excited (I always thought the Russians were a stolid race) and continuously laughing, were pressing gifts of chocolates and cigarets...
While experts surveyed the landscape for destruction, Russian men and women formed a long line, cheerfully helped Canadian soldiers unload equipment and ammunition. Later the Russians opened their communal food center to the Canadians. Enthusiastic Major Murdoch reported: "We tasted such delicacies as borsch and cranberry pie for the first time, and were regaled on steaks hung till they were so tender they could have been eaten with a spoon...
...Buck. On the Literature side Miller is the leading light and a very bright one. English 7 amounts to an intellectual history of the United States and fits perfectly into the field. English 70 is considered fair and all the 170's excellent particularly "a" and "d" under Murdoch and Miller. This is the most alive part of the whole field and claims the largest number of concentrators...