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...Portland 280 ministers appealed from their pulpits for men to help save the crop; high schools dismissed children of relief families so that they could go into the fields. The State employment service sought workers with broadcasts over five radio stations, handbills in stores and pool halls, a banner-plastered automobile which went roaring over the State...
...Walter Scott Neff, executive secretary of American Peace Mobilization, greeted visiting reporters royally. "We are here." he declaimed, "and here we'll stay until we've won out." One reporter walked back to the picket line with a nice-looking girl carrying a banner: "No A.E.F. for the U.S." The reporter said: "Why don't you get wise to yourself? Why waste time with these jiggs and mockies? You're smart." The pretty picket stamped her foot, tears in her eyes. "You've got a lot of room to talk," she said. "You work...
...issued previously to bandsmen, reserve officers who had experience in group singing, and the soldiers themselves (one copy to groups of 50 men). Of the 67 songs, most were as familiar to civilians as they were to soldiers (The Last Roundup, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, The Star-Spangled Banner, Dixie, Casey Jones, etc.). Newer to rookies were the Army songs: > The Field Artillery's rollicking The Caissons Go Rolling Along, written for horse artillerymen, now has a modern parody: Over hill, over dale, motorized from head to tail, With the caissons and hosses all gone. Stop...
Above the historic stones of the Acropolis last week fluttered not only the Nazi swastika but also the azure-&-white banner of Greece. "An elegant expression that we honor Greece," declared a German correspondent in Athens. But beneath the twin emblems the Nazis energetically concerned themselves not so much with honor as with the business of practical conquest...
...shook hands all around. Someone placed a floral horseshoe on home plate. Red-coated brass-bandsmen, tootling gaily, marched off toward the flagpole leading a procession of flag-bearing U.S. Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step. The flag was raised, the Star-Spangled Banner reached high F, the mayor threw out the first ball. Thus traditionally the baseball season opened last week. Immediately dopesters' expectations were knocked out of the ball park...