Word: roster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This influx of last-minute belligerents called attention to the legalistic aspects of the Security Conference's voting roster. Would Russia, for instance, ask to see the list of Peru's war dead? If, as the British and U.S. governments feared, the U.S.S.R. would claim a vote for each of its autonomous republics, could the point be made that none of the 16 nor the U.S.S.R. itself had formally declared war on Germany...
...told, we have seen close to a third of our pre-Pearl Harbor staff go off to the wars. So far 46 girls have left to join the Wacs or the Waves or the Red Cross- and the Service Roster in our reception room shows that there are now 340 TIME, LIFE & FORTUNE men in uniform (almost 50 percent have earned commissions). And the services seem to have made good use of the special skills of these men. To mention just a few, a photographer is "still my own photo boss with my own lab" ... an editorial man is Yank...
...happy to know that only two of our men have been taken prisoner and interned-but six of the names on our Roster are in gold now. Across the top of this honor roll are the words: "For the Freedom of All People...
Boasting a roster of ex-college stars, a newly-formed Navy supply Corps basketball team books forward with justifiable optimism to its initial encounter Saturday against Chelsea Naval Hospital. A nine-game schedule has been arranged for the squad, composed entirely of ensigns of Harvard's Midshipmen-Officers Unit...
...radio performance of Beethoven's masterpiece, Fidelia, finally broke the spell. The first installment was broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro...