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...Provost Marshal's white-helmeted, white-gaitered M.P.s ("Ike's Snowballs") make periodic sweeps of London looking for A.W.O.L.s. They sift Red Cross clubs, dance halls, pubs, hotels and railway stations check dog tags and furlough papers. In one recent six-hour sweep they caught 104 soldiers absent without leave, three of whom were wearing civilian clothes...
...answer goes right to the heart of the Newsmagazine Idea-for the basic promise we have made you and every other TIME subscriber is not that we will get you the news first, but rather that we will sift through the torrent of news that sweeps past you every day-leave out everything you can afford to skip-and then tell you all the really significant news of the week just as briefly, clearly, memorably and understandingly as we know...
...have made common cause with Great Britain. You cannot therefore disown responsibility for anything that her representatives do in India. You will do a grievous wrong to the Allied cause if you do not sift the truth from the chaff whilst there is yet time. Just think of it. Is there anything wrong in the Congress demanding unconditional recognition of India's independence? It is being said: 'But this is not the time.' We say: This is the psychological moment for that recognition. For then and then only can there be irresistible opposition to Japanese aggression...
...division is its planning and intelligence board in Washington-which includes an ex-foreign correspondent (the Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer), an economist (James Warburg), representatives of the Army (Colonel Oscar Solbert), Navy (Captain Homer L. Grosskopf), State Department. The board's job is to sift the vast portfolio of U.S. Government information on domestic and foreign events, pass it on to the operations division in the form of directives that fix the U.S. propaganda line for each country...
This was the time one was supposed to think back over the last four years, to sum them up, to sift the wheat from the chaff, to see everything in its proper proportion. Vag had a jumbled image of the Larz Anderson Bridge on a Saturday afternoon in the fall, of the workmen putting wooden treads on the Widener steps and driving stakes into the ground to guide the snow-plows, of Memorial Hall, with thin trickles of sunlight straining through the colored glasses, and rows of heads bent over tables, and of that first light green tinge the trees...