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From the Commander in Chief at Hyde Park came this nod to the angry Secretary. He declared that an editorial in the New York Times headed "Mr. Wheeler Goes Too Far" had not gone...
...defense program or no-or take a back seat to the Axis. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles agreed. But OPM's Ed Stettinius and OPACS' Leon Henderson stood pat against any exports that would take materials away from defense or essential civilian needs. Now the Presidential nod has gone to Rockefeller (partly because a Nazi freighter recently slipped through the blockade, delivered an airplane and parts which Brazil's Vasp line needed and the U.S. had failed to supply...
...composer, Virgil Thomson helped invent Neo-Romanticism, which is described in the current Modern Music as "a melodious simplicity, accepting all the known tricks of the trade, with a friendly nod to dissonance or any other musical Nance...
...Everett Horton) arrives to tell her she is to be glorified, she is too stunned to speak. Her truck-driver boy friend (James Stewart) has to supply her address, telephone number. Told when and where to report for rehearsals, Sheila still can't answer. Says the agent, understandingly: "Nod once if you've heard...
Heads will willingly nod when MacLiesh and Cushman rattle off their figures on the raw material self-sufficiency of the Western Hemisphere, (granting their optimistic stock-piling, substitute-developing, and full domestic exploitation assumptions); they will nod a little more dubiously when the authors discuss U. S. defense bases and army-navy-air power; they may still be nodding when the argument is persuasively made for at least the short-run military impenetrability of the Western Hemisphere. But as the authors draw steadily away from the safe ground of indisputable fact and into the whirlpool of opinion, this head...