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Crowed R. J. Thomas, head of the triumphant C. I. O. union. "This has all the earmarks of a posthumous resignation. The auto workers relieved Mr. Martin of his position more than a year ago, and what does he imagine he is resigning from...
...words which had a more timely ring were Woodrow Wilson's: "There is, therefore, but one response possible from us: Force, Force, to the utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world. . . ." Was there not an echo from Franklin Roosevelt, last week: "We shall be able to keep that way [of peace] open only if we are prepared to meet force with force if challenge is ever made...
...open at 10 a.m. It was zero hour for the ?300 million 3% war loan ($1,200,000,000) announced fortnight ago by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon. This first major fiscal barrage of Great Britain in World War II had to go over with a triumphant rumble of "Oversubscribed!"-or else. The waiting clerks gossiped that Distillers Co., Ltd. was buying $4,000,000 worth, Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. $20,000,000, and there was said to be "hardly any stagging...
...Henshaw had told Weisberg about the Mayne letters, Weisberg had told Jackson. Jackson, indignantly believing they were the goods, put up the $105 Mayne wanted for them. Thereupon Jackson had invited a number of Congressmen, including Hook, to his home in Chevy Chase, showed them the documents with a triumphant smile. Hook looked, saw his duty clear, declared he would...
Sweethearts. Everybody's marraine in this war as in the last is venerable, foghorn-voiced Mistinguett, 64, triumphant sexy grandma of the Folies Bergère and Casino de Paris. Her famed extremities are still as shapely as they were generations ago (see cut, p. 25). Nobody looks at her now-withered face, and since "Mees" no longer has the strength to do her Apache dances under her own power she is swung and flung about the stage by two virile youths. "Mees" last week came tottering from Bordeaux where she had been helping the Duchess of Windsor raise...