Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manpower Commission. Washington was getting ready to adopt a work-or-fight law (see U.S. at War); Canada had had one since 1942. The commissioners wanted to see for themselves how Canada's system works. At Ottawa they were to get an overall view. Then they could visit Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal to see how the system works in the field...
...reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments of war, the combat infantryman's feet and stomach. There is no excuse, he holds, for poorly cooked chow, and many a G.I. who had heard of Krueger as a tough, tyrannical ogre has been better fed after a Krueger visit to the company mess. If he sees a G.I. limping, Krueger wants to know why. If the trouble is a misfit shoe, the man's officer is rebuked for not having seen to it that his men were properly outfitted...
...bowed to him in the street. He was not supposed to touch liquor, but once in a while he would stop at a friend's house for a few slugs. He took up with a smooth little tart named Julie, who showed him the gay life on a visit to the state capital. Nobody but Editor Mabry and his son seemed to bother about the new marshal's goings-on. Cancy had the Negroes so scared that they would hardly venture out after dark...
Here for a visit we saw Lou Swain's pretty fiancee, but we noticed he guarded her closely from advances by George Trudeau and others. Jack Trumbauer has promised us a treat this weekend when "someone close" will visit him for the big dance...
...Bulgarian listeners Radio Sofia broadcast a more sensational side of the trials (see above). One of the defendants was a former Regent, Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III, who died mysteriously after a command visit with Adolf Hitler a year and a half...