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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Male Teat. Few of Grand Central's sightseers were inclined to carp. To them, the Century's elegances were a glimpse of unknown comfort, a far cry from the jolting realities of everyday railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful...
...Communism must be able to fight and not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to break a promise, to go into danger and to avoid danger, to be known and to be unknown. Who fights for Communism has of all the virtues only one: that he fights for Communism...
Last week France had its fourth government in seven weeks. A small but revealing fact in the situation was that the new Premier, Dr. Henri Queuille, who had been active in French politics since 1914 and a cabinet minister 22 times, was unknown in the U.S. Very few Americans could make more than a stab at pronouncing his name...
Until he got into the political big time, De Bernonville was unknown in Canada. That was the way he wanted it. Two years ago, using a forged passport and the name of Jacques Benoit, he had sneaked into the Dominion from the U.S. At first he kept out of sight by working in the Quebec woods. Then he settled in Montreal's fashionable Côte des Neiges district, was joined by his wife and three daughters, gradually began to move about in the French-speaking community. He drifted from one job to another, working for a while with...
...Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that it had been "procured from Mrs. Patterson by fraud and deceit exercised upon her by some person or persons unknown...