Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reorganized WPB again-and left it teetering on a higher precipice than ever before. No plain citizen could hope now to follow the tortured quarreling inside WPB; even Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, out of his experience as World War I's one-man production board, could only shake his old grey head and gloom: "Tinkering, tinkering, always tinkering. Patching. They have no overall plan...
...told them I was sad that this battle apparently had to be; that I had come to Maroc not as a man of war but as a man of peace. Their genial manner disappeared, and they both bowed their heads. The Naval officer put forth his hand to shake mine, and as he raised his face, there were tears in his eyes. The captain also shook hands in a very moving manner, and I was free to go about a city under siege entirely unmolested...
...Algeria, a thorough shake-up of the Government appears necessary. The real feelings of the people must be represented in the Government in some way, and the political persecution that is a disgrace to the Allied nations must be ended. Above all, an economic plan must be drawn up to save Morocco from the depression that will follow the departure of U.S. troops. . . . There are numerous trained men and skilled administrators available. . . . Many of them have been sidetracked because they are pro-Allied and anti-German. . . . 'Unless General Nogues and his associates are removed there will be trouble...
Deadlock. But there was no sign from any quarter last week that the political shake-up which Correspondent Middleton called for would be forthcoming. Having met in Casablanca, Generals Giraud and De Gaulle, key men of the two main factions of divided France, had retired again to their respective headquarters...
...unhappy man last week as he turned over the Governorship of Georgia to stocky, ambitious Ellis Gibbs Arnall. With his coat collar turned up, his owl eyes staring straight ahead, he sat glumly on the platform throughout Arnall's inauguration; when the ceremonies were over he refused to shake hands, stomped off to his home in the hardwood swamps of Telfair County...