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...carpenters, Big Bill Hutcheson, who is just as hardboiled, almost as ambitious, as John Llewellyn Lewis. The reported Lewis-Hutcheson deal was to retire A.F. of L. President William Green, outflank C.I.O. President Philip Murray, and seize control of U.S. labor. But Mr. Lewis had badly miscalculated the temper of Mr. Murray, his onetime devoted follower...
Elissa Landi advocated that dramatic critics "temper their honesty" to help the theater's business...
...been to divide enemy forces and demolish them fragment by fragment. Allied strategy, which became obvious the moment the Americas fell into the war, is to prevent any further division. The Allies, possessing the great land masses of the world and the great sea bastions between them, must temper their chain and let no link be broken. Then, with unified, coordinated action, they must use the chain to beat the enemy down...
...temper of the Tribune's reporting the war & peace issue shows in its streamer page 1 headlines: WAR BLAMED ON U.S. ENVOYS WARN SENATE WARMONGERS WAR AGITATORS HIT BY HOLT HALT WAR DRIVE- WHEELER BARE MORE STEPS TO WAR HALIFAX STEERS F.D.R. BILL HOUSE PASSES DICTATOR BILL DRAFT ARMY 'GOING TO WAR' NEW WAR DEAL WITH CANADA BEAT DRUMS FOR CONVOYS DISCLOSE MORE TALK OF A.E.F. PACT PUSHES U.S. NEAR WAR GEN. JOHNSON: WAR IN 60 DAYS* VOTE NO WAR IN WISCONSIN LET PEOPLE DECIDE ON WAR FIGHT JAPS! BRITONS...
Tommy Hart likes to hear that he has a wicked temper. But he lets it go only when he wants to. He is hell on efficiency, cuts loose with a fine blast of profanity when his crew shows signs of landlubberly carelessness. In the wardrooms of the Asiatic Fleet, he is known as tough but rated a good man to sail with when trouble looms. "In normal times," commented one officer recently, "I might like to be under someone a little easier than Admiral Hart, but in times like this in the Far East, I would much prefer...