Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their numbers drawn last week in Washington. Government bigwigs, 50 draftee and volunteer noncoms, World War I veterans, reached successively into the same glass jar used for the World War I draft and the first draft of War II, extracted 800 opaque, fireproof capsules. Inside each was a slip with a number corresponding to the order in which the 21-year-olds had registered (thousands in different draft districts had the same numbers). First number drawn...
...there never had been any. Vice Premier Darlan went to Paris during the week, got his orders, returned to pass them on to Chief of State Pétain in Vichy. The orders remained secret, but perhaps Vichy's Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon let the secret slip when he said that formation of a volunteer force to help Germany fight Russia "might be the beginning of French military cooperation with Germany." Sleek, long-nosed Fernand de Brinon, who is made of the same stuff as Pierre Laval, is rumored to be in line for the all-important...
There is an error in the statement which may be merely a reporter's slip, which I wish the CRIMSON would do nice the favor of correcting, The meeting which I was asked to sponsor and agreed to sponsor was one which was to have as its topic of discussion, "The Future of Labor in the U.S." The meeting was not held, as stated above, "to protest the award of an honorary degree," for any remarks which were made by speakers at this meeting regarding Lord Halifax the sponsors of the meeting cannot, of course, be responsible, I wish...
...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...
...union leader last week made news by marching through a picket line. It was no slip of the foot. John P. Frey, 70-year-old arch-conservative of the A.F. of L.'s conservative hierarchy, had said he would, and by gum he did. The pickets were A.F. of L. machinists who had shut down eleven San Francisco shipyards in the midst of a $500,000,000 Naval building program and earned the combined wrath of Government and labor officials. But the violation of the picket line by white-haired John Frey did not break the "outlaw" strike. Nonstriking...