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This was too much for Laborite Arthur Greenwood, who had helped bring down the Chamberlain Government but lost his War Cabinet post in the last shakeup. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is not only the leader of the Conservative Party. He is the Prime Minister of a nation united in a great purpose, but to make major claims for his party in its share in victory before victory is won may shake belief in our fundamental unity and give comfort to the enemy...
...caught it without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece, and with its new soldier's helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks at a smart clip in recent months. Whatever remains of Ordnance's complacency-much of it the result of 20 years of peacetime's lack of appropriations and neglect-General Burns is expected to clear away...
Curwen took only a little time to round into form. With an afternoon's warmup in the waist of the Jayvees, he moved up to the Varsity, and then, in the shakeup, to the Jayvees, which later became the Varsity...
...Press. In the House of Commons, following Home Secretary Herbert Morrison's threat last fortnight to suppress the Daily Mirror, the two sides clashed in a full-dress debate over freedom of the press. Despite the recent Cabinet shakeup, the Churchill Government is still more Right than Left. But the press, moving steadily to the Left, week by week has become more outspoken in its criticism of the Government. When Churchill saw that the Government's position was slipping further, he ordered Morrison to crack down. Leftists and countless other Britons had the horrible recollection that suppression...
...first press conference since succeeding to the directorship vacated yesterday by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York, Landis said Mrs. Roosevelt is making a "thorough-going" shakeup in her Civilian Participation Division which has been the main target of Congressional ire. He said that whether the First Lady remains with the agency is for her to decide...