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Needs and Shortages. The President had raised his voice in the midst of many confused voices. The background was just as confused, but in broad outline this was the situation...
...noisy Joe Guffey and Montana's wealthy, leftist James E. Murray. They also count on support from Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill, as well as two freshman Senators-Warren Magnuson of Washington and Brien McMahon of Connecticut. Somewhere in the background was the ambitious C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Even further back was the man the C.I.O. has picked as a potential leader of the junta and a potential 1948 Presidential candidate: Henry Wallace...
...forms of lighting: chiaroscuro, in which the line of a cheek, the wrinkle of a sleeve, the keys of a fingered saxophone, appear as if drawn in white ink on black paper; and its opposite, in which the musicians appear in almost featureless silhouette against a staring, blank white background...
...existed in Norway under the dictatorship of Vidkun Quisling, head of the Nasjonal Samling, the Norwegian Nazi organization. To calm the tumult, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven sought the aid of Norway's Primate in forming a provisional government under King and Storting (Parliament). Quisling was quietly shoved into the background and Eivind Berggrav, man of God and man of peace, took to the radio to appeal for order. "The civil population must refrain from any interference," he said. "Civilians who forcibly mix themselves up in the war by sabotage or in any other way, commit the greatest crime against their...
...Fear We Need Not Yield." On Feb. 1, 1942, after two years in the background, Vidkun Quisling was reinstated as puppet dictator of Norway in a gaudy Wagnerian ceremony in Oslo's Akershus Castle. The people of Oslo stayed away from the ceremony. But in Trondheim Norwegians by the thousand gathered outside Nidaros Cathedral. Inside, preaching to a handful of quislingites, a puppet pastor was shouting the praises of his leader. The people in the street were waiting to hear Dean Arne Fjellbu. At 2 p.m., the hour scheduled for Fjellbu's afternoon service, police appeared with clubs...