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...shifts in personnel within the party or Cabinet or both, which would transfer the Government's center of gravity a foot or two toward the true democrats. But after the session the same group had the same firm grip on the party: Communist-hating War Minister Ho Ying-chin; the Chen brothers, leaders of the notoriously reactionary CC clique; Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
...Marie Louise Elkins) pecks at a dozen aspects of the war without getting its teeth in any of them. Playwright Hurlbut started with a card index instead of an idea. Her little community on the New England coast had to find room for a teen-age war bride, a chin-up war widow, an airplane spotter, a girl confused by pacifist upbringing, a World War I veteran who re-enlists, an old maid who finds a Nazi uniform buried in the dunes, the Nazi spy who buried it. For fear all this might be too meager, Playwright Hurlbut threw...
...second front: such a move took months of custom-building. All through the late summer, while a worldwide controversy raged over the second front, he and Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill had already determined their move: they had to sit by and "take it on the chin." Recounting the events now, the President leaned back in his big chair, puffed contentedly on his cigaret...
From the uncoordinated also-rans that took it on the chin from Penn to monsters to the tune of 35 to 6, Harlow-tutored Odell has wrought a well balanced unit which comes into Saturday's climax game with victories over Princeton and Brown...
Play of the Cards. With chin up, bulging brief case and a staff of lawyers and experts, the manufacturer then traipses to a regional price-board office, starts trying to take the tricks which may decide whether he makes or loses money for the duration. The board scans the books and the company's records, checks & double-checks for the six major factors: 1) production quality, 2) delivery rate, 3) inventive contribution, 4) cooperation with other manufacturers, 5) economy in the use of raw materials, 6) efficiency...