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...handed out was on musical-request programs. No telephoned or telegraphed requests are to be accepted. Requests received by mail are to be held "for an unspecified length of time." The censor remembered, perhaps, that during Prohibition bootleggers were supposed to have sent messages to Rum Row by getting "platter turners" on all-night stations to play their prearranged tunes...
Colonel Jay is to be transferred on December 15 to the IV Corps Area where he will fill the post of Chief of Artillery. He was presented with a silver platter last night by the Cadet Officers of the Harvard R.O.T.C. unit as as expression of their appreciation of his work here...
...first Russian week and 100 in the second, the Germans had not done much more than push the Russians behind their old borders. After two bitter weeks they had cleared only a little beyond the areas which they themselves had, since 1939, handed to Russia on a silver platter...
...their stories recounts that during a diplomatic dinner in a Balkan capital the British Ambassador missed his watch and informed his host. Unembarrassed, the host announced: "During dinner someone took his neighbor's watch. I shall place a silver platter on the table, the lights will be turned out for a minute, and I expect the watch to be placed on the platter." When the lights came on, the platter contained six watches. According to another version, the platter was missing...
Willkie "came up the hard way" as a clever public relations expert who did his best to wreck the T.V.A. while posing as a "true liberal"; now he offers himself to the nation on a platter of self-contradicting statements and promises. Roosevelt is a brilliant politician, who was pushed by circumstances into the role of a courageous fighter for the underprivileged; who for two years has stalled and backtracked; and who today despite his glib assurances that all is well in the nation, must know that nine million men cannot find jobs because the jobs are not there...