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...peace does not come till 1945, the problem will then be to find jobs for the 27,000,000 who will have gone into the services and war industries...
...assented: "I agree with every single word Mr. Lawson said. . . ." Some were reminded, by sentiments such as these, of feelings expressed by Winston Churchill back in 1930. In his premature autobiography, A Roving Commission, he wrote: "I have always urged fighting wars and other contentions with might and main till overwhelming victory, and then offering the hand of friendship to the vanquished. Thus I have always been against the pacifists during the quarrel, and against the jingoes at its close...
...observers. His witnesses were correspondents. He invited them in, expedited their visas, got them interviews and a look at a salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin' Till Martin Gits Here. When the Germans rehearsed their invasion of Luxembourg a few days before the act, Bob Casey (Chicago Daily News) put the story on the wires...
...Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler's most ivory-turreted Lieder...
Town life raised the Taylors' standard of living. "I've got to git me a raddio," said Paw excitedly one day. "Here Congress has done passed a law to give us WP & A men a raise and I never knowed nothing about it till this morning and they done it yestiddy. Ever'body else on the job knowed it but me." So the radio dealers got out their oldest sets, the second-hand-car dealers got out their oldest junk. All jacked up the prices...