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...have the enemy on the ropes; he is dazed and his knees are buckling." Then he ordered a pip-squeak move: to place ceilings on employment in all nonessential industries, hoping thereby to send 200,000 workers to war plants. The Washington Post assigned half its staff to write huff-puff stories along General Somervell's line. But the Post and the General were struggling against a tide...
With a sheaf of Metropolitan names and half the critics in town on their payroll, his rivals looked as if they might take the box office out from under the remarkable British Mozartian. Worried, British AmBassador Charles Bateman thought Sir Thomas ought to leave Mexico in a huff...
Last week came Britain's answer: No, until after the war, when the mandating power, the League of Nations or its successor, could give consent. Trans-Jordan's Cabinet resigned in a huff, but a friendly talk between the Emir and Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner of Palestine, patched up the unpleasantness...
Last week a mob of anti-Fascist Italians sacked the Roman villa of Beniamino Gigli, famed tenor, who in 1932 quit the Metropolitan and returned to Italy in a huff after refusing to accept a depression pay-cut. Tenor Gigli was accused of friendliness with Nazi officials in Italy...
When the egg buyer drives in the yard and says "Eggs are down a cent today," do I rare back and say, "Oh, no, they're not, we're charging two cents more today." He drives off in a huff and I sit down on my case of eggs and charge and charge and charge, but nothing happens. The same system applies to livestock. We truck it to the city and are informed that the "market" is so much today. We can charge all we like but we get paid whatever the market happens to be. Charge...