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...just won't let him be. . . . That's what we've got a right to do just like the British, and that's what I aim to keep on doing." Said onetime Fusilier Graves: "This is no time to persuade the British public . . . that British greed and tyranny had solidly united the thirteen colonies in a white-hot fury of revolution. . . . The broadcast account of Breed's Hill, popularly miscalled Bunker Hill,† was beautifully and comprehensively inexact...
...production, plus two British, one Canadian, and three Swedish companies. This cartel, charged Justice, controls some 75% of the world's match business (the Japanese* and the Russians handle most of the rest). Its members have divided up the world among themselves and, except in rare spasms of greed, scrupulously refrain from trespassing on each other's preserves...
...Harvest. The Germans had-and muffed-a chance to play upon Slovak nationalism, foster a loyal satellite in Slovakia. Nazi greed and maladroitness soon destroyed any affection the Slovaks might have had for Germany; Slovak troops deserted wholesale rather than fight the Poles and the Russians, and Slovak Partisans have been locally active against the German Army...
Thus the Senate clambered through hours of parliamentary double-talk last week. The problem before it was actually a simple matter of political greed. The Senate's premier spoilsman, choleric old (75) Kenneth McKellar, was making another assault on TVA, which enrages him because its thousands of jobs are not open to patronage appointments. He had hung 16 legislative amendments on an appropriation bill (which is almost never vetoed), mainly in an effort to throw jobs open to politics. After a dingdong battle, he gave up all but one amendment, but that one was plenty. The Senate, flailing away...
...their purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since 1914, and that all territories stolen from China shall be restored. Japan will be expelled from all other territories taken by violence and greed. In due course Korea shall become free and independent...