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Near Yonchon on the western front one night last week, a U.S. battalion was hit without warning by what one officer called "the damndest mortar and artillery barrage I know of." A few hours later a screaming, bugle-blowing Chinese regiment attacked the Americans and cut them off. It was the heaviest fighting on the western front since the truce talks in July...
Republicans in Diapers. "I've been subjected to the damndest bunch of intellectual balderdash that I've seen come out of politics in a hell of a long time. I've been represented as being responsible for the 'Pearl Harbor whitewash' [he was counsel for the Pearl Harbor Committee], although I battled the committee for a whole month. I've been accused of being responsible for everything the Loyalty Review Board did, although I sat in just two cases . . . I've been charged by Republicans . . . with being only a nominal Republican, and these...
...Hugh Johnson's assistants on NRA. He hated Washington, hated its confusion, its backbiting, its hordes of jet-propelled reformers. But he dutifully gave up his G.E. job and went back, still hating it, took his punishment and his $8,000-a-year Government salary, and did his damndest to break the nation's production jam. He was under the authority of Donald Nelson, a man he came to dislike cordially, and with whom he violently disagreed, particularly about Nelson's plan for early reconversion. As one of the biggest of Big Businessmen, he was fair game...
...snowed. We had to break trail for the horses. We were snowbound for three days. Zanuck chased a grizzly for 30 hours, came back with a sprained ankle. We made 20 separate fords. We lost the horse carrying our medicine. I got blood poisoning. It was the ruggedest, damndest trip you've ever seen. But d'you know what? Zanuck loved...
...Chinese troops swarming across Siberia to tear down Western civilization, I'd get excited. But I can't see it. It's not in the nature of the Chinaman to be a Communist. Moscow can't organize China for Communism, even if Moscow tries its damndest...