Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poland he made an oblique offer ("there can only be real peace ... if Germany and England come to an understanding") which he later told the German people was a genuine request. The German people have lately become restive, weary of war (TIME, June 30). Said the Nazi Party organ NS Kurier last week: "Whenever and wherever we observe people we notice over and over again little feeling of interest shown in great events of this war. This terrible immaterial behavior is so unbearable that the Government should take steps against...
...civilian supply. First move: obtaining (from OPM, which administers all priorities) priority status for such essential civilian industries as transportation, communication, utilities, food processing, farm equipment, mining. That means that orders of a bus line, for example, for zinc for gears and battery rods will come ahead of an organ maker's order for pipes...
...mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what he is and hopes to make of himself still more...
Templetarian, house organ of James Templeton & Co., Glasgow carpet makers, last week spoke of a new carpet order: "The firm has, during its long history, supplied carpets for many and varied uses, but never before for use too feet below ground. This particular order is for an emergency deep shelter which can be used by the British Cabinet for its meetings, if required...
...witty, exquisitely cultivated native of Kansas City. A piano-prodigious only son, he went to the same high school as Playwight-Critic Richard Lockridge, Contralto Gladys Swarthout, Actor William Powell. Virgil Thomson went to Harvard, where he wore kid gloves to scull on the River Charles, and played the organ in Boston's King's Chapel. He spent a year after graduation on a grant from the Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn an honest penny." He remained in Paris until last year, managed...