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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place to destroy Communism is in Moscow-not China, Malaya or the Dutch East Indies. Through Western Europe and Germany is the path to Moscow. The present battle for Germany may well begin the battle for Moscow...
...force of about 20,000 (at present 13,663), specializing in Arctic and anti-submarine operations...
Little Mr. Big started the proceedings by reading "Christmas Greetings to the President." He muffed his first try, and blamed it on the blondes present. The singers banked themselves once more behind the keyboard, the control room buzzed for silence and this time Jimmy read his little speech without a slip. Then the stars from the Met, helped out by pop singers Perry Como and Fran Warren, did their little turn...
...first assure myself that the painter was a good man . . . [But] is it possible that the visible presence of the artist makes a relevant difference? For in applauding his performance we are applauding the whole man there before us-the man with his entire past peering through his present. . . I admit that I keep away from performances by [Nazi] collaborators; I don't want to go . . . [but] the point is that while my feelings point one way, my reason points another...
Soldier. When Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War organized the famous Second Cavalry Regiment (which produced twelve Confederate generals), Thomas was commissioned a major in the unit. At the beginning of the Civil War, all the elements of a personal tragedy were present in his situation: he was from the South and had principally served with Southerners; Virginia considered making him her chief of ordnance; Thomas had himself applied for the post of commandant of Virginia Military Institute a short time before...