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...desk over the holidays, hammering together the President's annual message on the state of the Union. But it needed a final polishing before it could be taken up to the Hill on Jan. 6. And the President also had a budget message to deliver on the 8th, his recommendations to accompany the Economic Council's report (TIME, Dec. 30) to be given two days later...
Katherine Marshall began to glimpse her new husband's extraordinary military qualities when she followed him to Fort Moultrie, S.C., where he commanded the 8th Infantry, in 1933. "No detail was too small for his attention, no soldier too lowly. ... If the post was shabby, with poorly kept grounds, he began fixing up his own garden and lawn; and within a few weeks all the lawns and gardens down the line began to take on a different complexion. There was never a word said, rarely an order given...
...August 8th, the "Voice of Israel," underground radio of Haganah, the Jewish. Resistance Movement, broadcast these words to the British: "We say to you that we will regard any attack made on the refugees as an attack on ourselves. An injury to their lives and safety will be regarded as an injury to our lives and safety. Our fight is for them and with them. Everything we have built in this country is for them...
Undergraduates' thinking developed markedly from that June day in 1940 when a Crimson editorial voiced their fear "that under the guise of preparedness (we) will be catapulted into a futile and devastating foreign war while our own democracy crashes in ruins," to the bewildering 8th of December, 1941 when they decided, "we can see that it is our job to fight, and we are not only willing but eager to accept our task." Realistic, constructive thinking reached its summit when in early 1943 a poll of student opinion indicated that ninety-six percent favored "some sort of world council...
...York 4, Chicago 2 Cleveland 3, Washington 0 (1st game) Washington 9, Cleveland 4 (2nd game called in 8th because of darkness. Detroit 3, Philadelphia 1. Boston at St. Louis postponed, rain...