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...position, were reluctant to grant Franklin Roosevelt another tittle of power. Substitute proposals were belatedly discussed. Most generally favored: a $2,000,000,000 credit to Britain which she could use on her own responsibility to purchase supplies. Proponents of the bill pointed out that such a device might spoil the coordination between U. S. and British procurement which the bill sought to improve...
Outwardly, men in Great Britain were defiant; the questions were deep inside them. "Christmas," said a placard in downtown London, "is 1,940 years old and Hitler is only 51. He can't spoil our Christmas." If shops escaped bombings, they advertised: "Open As Usual." A tea shop which had been hit and lost its front wall announced "More Open than Usual...
...have to spoil a good story with an ugly fact, but Pepper Martin couldn't have had his argument with Manager Frank Frisch at the Cardinal training camp in 1931 [TIME, Nov. 4] since the manager of the Cardinals for that year was Gabby Street...
...with Maria, who warns him to "confine yourself within the modest limits of order." He counters: "Confine: I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too." There is certainly nothing "dated" in this joke to spoil it, but it would hardly rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce and "new men" like the ambitious Malvolio. And rather than...
...gratitude is due to the Administration for its prompt response to student demand. But the steps taken should not obscure the goal yet to be achieved. Harvard still swallows unpalatable food at unpalatable cost. Harvard still harbors too many cooks who spoil the broth...