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General "Hap" Arnold picked George Kenney from behind a desk and sent him to Australia. "Sir, I am your airman here," said brisk, bantam-sized Kenney when he reported for duty...
Finally Candidate Roosevelt came to a main piece of business in his speech-an attempt to give a brisk brushoff to Earl Browder and his enthusiastic Communist support for Term IV, without alienating any needed votes: "I have never sought and I do not welcome the support of any person or group committed to Communism, or Fascism, or any other foreign ideology which would undermine the American system of government...
...Hodges headquarters is businesslike, brisk but quiet. The General is no spit-&-polish stickler but, a thorough precisionist, he insists on detailed planning. If there has been a mistake, he wants it thoroughly aired when he meets his staff at 0900 each morning. He addresses his officers by their first names, but his staffers call him "General...
...call statement about its action was that only eight, or fewer, U.S. ships a month had been calling at Argentine ports. Most Argentine exports to the U.S. have been carried in Argentine bottoms, which are still free to enter U.S. ports. Latin American and Brit ish ships continue their brisk trade with Argentina...
...group of British parachutists, taken prisoner by the Germans, lost no time getting into a brisk argument with their captors-not about the ideology of the war, or about peace aims, but about who started the bombing of cities. Was it the Luftwaffe, by bombing Coventry and London, or the R.A.F., by bombing German cities...