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...became somewhat pointless to snipe at the inefficiency of the bureaucracy when one of the most efficient administrators in the world was in charge of it. If any man could make democratic socialism work, Cripps could. Winston Churchill greeted his appointment with this tribute: "He is certainly the ablest brain in the administration, and at least we have one first-class intelligence now brooding upon our affairs...
...temperature was 26° below zero, ladies of easy virtue ceased to advertise their charms by rapping on sporting house windows with a silver dollar. The more functional substitute: a safety razor blade. When scraped across a window pane it produced a sound approximating the love call of a snipe. More important, it scraped the ice off the glass, enabled passing gents to peer...
...Jungle. Today, while the Indies wait upon The Netherlands' reaction to the pact, a truce-but no peace-prevails in Indonesia. The Indonesian Army, led by hotheaded young General Soedirman, continues to snipe at units of the 92,000 Dutch troops under Lieut. General S. H. Spoor. Actually, in Java the Dutch hold only three small areas: the cities of Surabaya, Semarang and a corridor two to six miles wide connecting and including Batavia and Bandung. Of Java's 51,000 square miles, the Dutch hold perhaps 380 square miles. In Sumatra the Dutch control three areas...
...students can be accommodated at the previously scheduled dances and in the newly available Union Common Rooms, the popularity of the first big post-war weekend has far outstripped the estimates of needed space. An unexpected demand for 500 additional tickets has forced the long suffering committee into a snipe hunt for new halls...
Warren stumped on his record. Said he: "I have been unable to draw from my opponent anything that could be considered an indictment of my administration." He was right. His safe & sane record left Kenny and P.A.C. little to snipe at. He had occasionally appointed able Democrats to state office. He had cut taxes, at the same time extended unemployment compensation, and proposed state medical insurance. He had got higher old age pensions-always a popular issue in California-passed by the Legislature...