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...Gaetano Salvemini, spade-bearded, spade-calling onetime anti-Fascist Italian legislator, Harvard historian (What to Do with Italy; TIME, Sept. 13), now teaching at University of California's Berkeley campus, pinned another of his poison-ivy notices on the laurel & olive of U.S. foreign policy. "Roosevelt and Hull know less about Europe than I know about Kentucky," he told West Coast newspapermen. "To be very frank, the policies of Roosevelt and Churchill so far as Europe goes are crazy. They don't know anything about it, and have poor advisers." Two days later the Hollywood Writers' Mobilization...
...Italy a unit of 4.2s knocked out a battery of German 88s which weigh several tons. The 4.2 mortar weighs about 300 lb. Broken down into base plate, spade, barrel and standard, it can be manhandled into position by its own crew...
...Said he: "Policies generated behind a desk frequently do not fit conditions throughout the nation." To make certain that SWPC policies do meet the needs, Johnson has made the 14 SWPC districts in the nation virtually autonomous, has called in local retailers, bankers and credit men to do the spade work that should get idle small plants to work. (Best example of how the plan is working: Manhattan retailers found a surprising number of plants in their area which could increase civilian goods production tomorrow with materials already cached in Manhattan warehouses, where they have been frozen under a months...
...terminations, the Army now has dapper, red-tape-hating Brigadier General Albert Jesse Browning. AI Browning left his $40,000-a-year job as president of Chicago's United Wallpaper, Factories, in 1941, to earn $1 a year with OPM. Later he joined SPAB, did plenty of the spade work converting U.S. industry to war. Before he went to Washington, he had converted a good chunk of his own plant...
...open at the neck, his belt loosened, his black shoes unlaced. His grey eyes peered through the windows of his comfortable house to the shade trees on Washington's drowsy Hobart Street. Now, he thought, there would be time to dabble in the tiny home laboratory, to spade and weed the small backyard garden...