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...nation, sore and grim over the fall of Corregidor, dared not be so sure. Nobody knew the U.S. losses; commentators reserved comment; the public waited, they would patiently wait all this year, for further news...
Labor was sore that the President should say wages should remain "at existing scales." Management was suspicious of the qualifying words-"wages in general...
Pierre Laval's actual plop into power took Mr. Hull unawares, as it did everyone else in the State Department. But the air was cleared. Now the Vichy sore spots-Dakar, Madagascar, Martinique, North Africa-were almost beyond the reach of diplomatic medication, would if necessary have to be dealt with by the sharp war instruments of the United Nations...
Afterward, General Brereton returned to New Delhi and the high-ceilinged hotel rooms where he transacts these days some of the most important business of World War II. He talked with officers, just back from hard-hit Burma, where he had sent them to study at first hand the sore need for air defense. In this same week, he flew across Rajputana to Karachi, India's great northern port on the Arabian Sea. He flew to southern India. He saw the signs of a vast job quickly done, but not yet completed: U.S. planes, pilots, crews, airdrome ground forces...
...bolster Crimson hopes tomorrow, Coach Floyd Stahl revealed that slugging Sophomore Ned Fitzgibbons will be back at first for the Terrier game. Fitzgibbons was fully recovered from his sore throat yesterday afternoon and just to prove it drove out a homer in the intra-squad scrimmage...