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...against Axis units after a preliminary air and tank blitz. According to Cairo, the whole Axis force, "rather than face repetition [of the attack], decided to surrender unconditionally." When the smoke of battle cleared away, the British found themselves with 7,500 Axis prisoners and General Rommel's right-hand man, Chief Administrative Staff Officer Major General Schmidt. British losses were 60 dead, 300 wounded. The British rescued 1,150 of their own troops imprisoned in Bardia...
...minutes later Dreher fired from just inside the blue line on the left boards, and his shot found its mark high in the right-hand corner of the goal for the tying score...
...Calling it "The Squared Circle," in three issues she filled the right-hand side with pro-Roosevelt editorials. The left-hand side was filled with pro-Willkie editorials by her husband of two years, Harry Frank Guggenheim, 51-year-old copper tycoon, ex-Ambassador to Cuba, aviation patron. ("My husband is traditionally a Republican. I'm not traditionally anything...
Administrator. Henry Stimson has during his year in office himself picked the three men who are his chief civilian aides. One of them is earnest Robert Porter Patterson, onetime overseas infantry officer and D.S.C.-man, who left the Federal appellate bench to become Under Secretary, the Secretary's right-hand man, who also handles Army buying. Another is Robert Abercrombie Lovett, wartime naval aviator, Assistant Secretary of War for Air who watches out for The Air Forces. The third is John Jay McCloy, Manhattan lawyer and A.E.F. artillery captain, who supervises Lend-Lease, Army publicity, personnel and many...
Maybe Democratic Boss Ed Flynn (who comes from The Bronx, got to be Franklin Roosevelt's right-hand man) was throwing a Brooklyn boy to the lions...