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...Sober citizens felt they had good reason to be harsh. In Los Angeles, District Attorney John Dockweiler produced a map showing that Japs (or Nisei relatives) hold leases on lands adjoining nearly every strategic spot in Los Angeles County -including highways, railways, power lines, airports, aircraft plants, oil fields, refineries, aqueducts. Japs hold a flat, mile-square tract of semidesert land near Los Angeles which could be turned into a landing field for bombers in an hour or two. Japanese farmers cultivate most of the foggy shoreline of Palos Verdes (next door to vital San Pedro harbor), where landing parties...
Viceroy. The Indian apologists, at their best, reveal a passionate conviction; the British, a rational caution. There could be few better examples of this typical British temper than Scottish Viceroy Linlithgow. He is a model of sober British effort, often suspected of misunderstanding, frequently attended by friction. Son of Australia's first Governor-General, he was born to great wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated...
...Variety calling it "the year's most publicized record"; I imagine they must read this column. . . . The explosive trumpet of Bunny Berigan was to be heard last night over the air from the Totem Pole, and it was the Bunny of five years ago at that. When sober, Berigan can apparently still play the most exciting improvisations, from the standpoint of tone, melodic ideas, or what you will, of any white man, and last night, on numbers like "Lover Come Back to Be" and "Night and Day," supported by what sounded like a nice jazz band, I heard the Berigan...
...These sober words came from Don Nelson last week. A gun now, he said, is worth ten guns in 1943. He also listed three silver-month musts, upon which "maximum production at once" depends. The production news of the week gave clues to how he meant to enforce them...
From Clare Boothe and Vincent Sheean over WOR-Mutual that evening came sober talk of the U.S. task. Said Sheean: "Shall we pretend, as I have heard so-called experts pretend today on the radio, that this thing is easy? . . . Let us get ready for a series of shocks...