Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cronies. Along with taking care of Stu and Ed, the President eased his croniest crony, George Allen, into the Board of Directors of RFC. Washington dopesters guessed that after a short time on RFC's Board of Directors, Mississippi-born George Allen, 49, might move in as boss of all Government lending agencies...
...with 40 points or 24 months service. The order would cut deep. The Army counts on only 135,000 from Selective Service, which expires on May 15. The enlistment pool was drying up. When July rolls around, Army authorities fear, they may be a quarter of a million men short...
Words & Ink. In Paris since liberation, Existentialism had called forth more words and more ink than any intellectual movement since Dadaism ushered in Europe's "lost generation" after World War I. Existentialism has its long-haired snobbish fringe, the butt of short-haired cartoonists (see cut). But the word has filtered down to everyman's and everywoman's level...
...bracer to tradition-loving England, to county social life and most of all to Moss Bros., London renters of clothing. They succored many a desperate ballgoer whose best tailcoat had been sacrificed to bombs or moths or had been cut into women's suits by coupon-short females...
...Nevertheless he was still writing, was following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short time, remember war as a grand adventure...