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Submarines were chosen to act as beacons in the North African landing. We took position about ten miles from Oran to shine lights and guide the invasion fleet. It was a very easy job. Then we pushed north, off the Balearic Islands. One afternoon, creeping toward "Gib," my officer of the watch sighted what he thought was a distant aircraft carrier. On a closer look it turned out to be a submarine. My orders were like everyone else's: if you see a German U-boat, fire everything you have got. We had six torpedoes; we fired...
...Under today's gentle blanket of beautiful snow lie hidden the special decorations which embellished the streets of Jersey City for the holiday season. Tomorrow the sun will shine and everything will sparkle, even last week's garbage...
Women Are Persons. The judgments he wrote in the following 37 years are his monument, shine with his liberal belief that "a" country's political growth should not be stunted by the dead hand of mere legalism." He dissented when the Court ruled out Canada's first "New Deal" sponsored by Prime Minister (now Lord) Bennett. When his fellow judges ruled that women were not persons and therefore net entitled to sit in the Senate, he dissented vigorously. His view was upheld in the Privy Council in London, of which Sir Lyman had been a member since...
...richly designed volumes. It will include all of Jefferson's major writings and speeches, his 18,624 known letters, plus texts or references to the 21,696 letters known to have been written to him. Search will be made for additional letters. New light may thus shine both on Jefferson's thought and on U.S. history...
After a quarter of a century in & out of medicine shows, burlesque, vaudeville, Howard made the big time in Joe Cook's Rain Or Shine in 1928, hit $1,100 a week in Ziegfeld's Smiles, and then went to Hollywood with Shelton to store some of their deadpan senselessness in celluloid. Howard claims that "radio made a bum out of me" and he is reconciled to it. The hours are wonderful; he has to work only a couple of days a week; and for his unsophisticated radio audience there is no need to think up new material...