Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen months ago, West Pointer McNair got away from his desk for a while, went to Tunisia to see his pupils perform in battle. It was a brief and unlucky experience: in his first day under fire he was wounded. He came home with his arm in a sling and went back to work...
Next day the Moscow radio announced that the Liberation Committee would perform all the functions of the Polish Government in Exile in London. Moscow also announced three decrees in the name of the pro-Soviet Polish National Council in Warsaw. The decrees...
...fine musical feature from Tokyo is the playing of Yoichi Hiraoka, famed Japanese xylophonist, who used to perform in U.S. concert halls and over a U.S. network. Says Grim : "He still plays classical music superbly, and without any commercials about his boss from Japan...
What to do? The party might fall back on its political genius, hope to win the peace even if the war were lost (see FOREIGN NEWS). But that would be easier to plan than to perform. The Allied forces were strong enough to smash "slow delaying actions." And how long, and how well, could German troops fight, once they knew they were no longer fighting...
Another member, William Henry Hastie, Negro ex-U.S. district judge, now dean of Howard University School of Law, resigned because he said the War Department failed to live up to its promises to give Negroes more vital jobs to perform, especially in the Air Forces. He charged that General "Hap" Arnold would have busted all Negroes out of the Army Air Forces if War Secretary Stimson had not intervened...