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...mother had fixed pot roast and brown gravy, hot rolls and pie. His father talked, all the time eying Horn curiously, until Horn finally opened his bulging barracks bag and hauled out his souvenirs-Luger pistols, German helmets, Nazi medals. The old man was an expert glazier. The stuff fascinated him. Horn was dead tired, but he sat and talked to his father until early morning...
Open Door Policy. It had been a busy week. The President had more than 60 appointments, many of them with members of the Congress. The door was still open, presumably would continue to be to all national legislators. The President also went to Capitol Hill again to lunch (roast lamb, no butter) with the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, and to talk German reparations with Edwin W. Pauley and Dr. Isador Lubin, chairman and vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Allied Reparations Commission...
...Minister King spoke, on the seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...
...dinner that night the Roosevelts had their first rib roast in months...
...pamphlet telling the girls what to expect in their husbands' country. Welcome to War Brides, issued by the Wartime Information Board and the Department of National Defense, contains everything from geography lessons to shopping hints, and a glossary explaining, for example, that in Canada a joint is a roast, a spanner is a wrench, and corn is wheat. Typical advice...