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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another announcement was like a bolt striking close at hand, sharply outlining the neighborhood right around home. It came from William Z. Foster and Eugene Dennis, the two top American-born bosses of the U.S. Communist Party. The bold net of their announcement, stripped of its tortuous Communist lingo, was that their primary allegiance belonged not to their homeland but to the U.S.S.R. If war came, they and all faithful Communists would be on the side of Russia...
Good-natured, ineffectual Harry Woodring, an Oxford Grouper and an isolationist, seemed unable to grasp the imminence of war, proved to be an ineffective Secretary. Harry Woodring's inaction and Louis Johnson's burning desire for the job precipitated a three-year running feud between the two top men in the War Department...
...Business. Next to Government, society is Washington's biggest business. Its annual expenditure runs to tens of millions of dollars. It absorbs the energies of 40 or 50 top-flight hostesses, debutantes, party consultants, 25 society columnists and writers, and assorted sycophants and camp followers...
...Sigh" and "Halcyon Days" are truly fine solo numbers on the popular-song level; "Tomorrow is Manana" and "Anygnay" made exciting production numbers; and the lyrics in "The Best Things in Life Are in 'Life' " and "They Can't Get Along Without Me" made these ensembles the top numbers of the show...
Although this freshman sextet is one of Priddy's top squads in a long time, a pronounced lack of practise last week cost the team its first defeat of the season. BU easily outclassed the Yardlings, 5 to 2, last Saturday, but a practise session improved the team so much that it was able to top BC, 5 to 3, four days later...