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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to conference, the Senate committeemen were adamant on providing something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China, $340 million for the Army. Both Houses approved...
...some 15 miles he rode with us, his gun pointed at my head. As we rode, he and the driver argued over what should happen to me. The usual procedure, if they catch a Yahudi, is to shoot him at once. Finally, the driver said: "Look, would I be carrying a Yahudi?" That seemed to do the trick, so the assassin motioned him to halt at a side road. As he climbed out, he glanced up & down for British patrols, then turned towards me and, bringing his gun up to his brow, he said: "B'khatirkum," meaning "by your...
Occasionally, drink got the best of the funmakers, and a posada ended in a free-for-all with the palo. A few practical jokers filled their piñatas with charcoal dust which exploded in the guests' faces. The usual sequel to such unseemly horseplay was a Mexican Donnybrook or "Rosario de Amozoc...
...almost as obvious a barrier to appreciation as the lock on his door. When British Sculptor Henry Moore was commissioned to carve a Madonna and Child for a church, he resolved to "meet the subject half way," as he put it, by substituting a limited realism for his usual smooth abstraction. The compromise was recognizably human, in a streamlined sort of fashion, but inertly bland as stone could...
...should guard the guardian of the nation's liberties, the U.S. press? The University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins, himself no silent partner of democracy, thought he knew the answer. As usual, his answer was irritating. He gave it last week in a speech at Rochester, N.Y.: "If you don't want Government control [or] the abuses almost inherent in the concentration of press ownership, an independent agency freely evaluating and criticizing the press's performance is the only answer...