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...Elder Statesman Baruch spoke words of humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry greater praise in the accolade: 'I am an American...
...completely reversing the regional board, the WLB : 1) condemned the union for its "utter disregard" of its contract, which contained a no-strike clause; 2) upheld the firing of the 41. Then, in blunt, unequivocal words to labor, WLB held: "Management's right to discipline employes for cause is recognized. ... To say that management has no right to impose discipline . . . would impose an insuperable obstacle in the way of management...
...variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...
...Marshal and the War. Tito does not expect the Germans to withdraw without a fight. He intends to continue the fight against them until the total and utter defeat of Hitler. Right now, he could place 150,000 soldiers at the disposal of the Allies for action elsewhere if Yugoslavia were liberated. Later, perhaps, twice as many...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...