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...Allies, kept the allegiance of most of the troops. After Darlan's assassination, Giraud was briefly the No. 1 French commander in North Africa. Then General de Gaulle replaced him and Henri Giraud was finally left with nothing but a second-rate post and a grandiose title: Inspector General of the French Armed Forces...
...addition to the National Lottery, thus had a vested interest in keeping the conductors honest. Guaguas, always jammed to the fenders, grew even more crowded. Marveled one conductor: "Before, we had to chase down some passengers for their fares; now they chase us down for their tickets." A jubilant inspector reported that his job had suddenly become a lead-pipe cinch; "Some people try to pay twice just to get an extra ticket." The company estimated that fare collections would climb some $70,000 a month; the prizes would cost only...
...receiving end of a blast. Representative Arthur G. Klein (Dem., N.Y.) cried that such "scatological skill . . . could spring only from a sick mind." Klein urged the formation of the Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
...marked with the official Gs of government service. But Rensburg was not one to wait on protocol. With one stern glance about the little (pop. 1,146) Orange Free State village, he commandeered a likely office, announced to the assembled villagers that he was the new government health inspector and asked for complaints...
...That's about the ticket,' said the inspector. 'We treat our own people the same way, so you, as a foreigner, can't kick. Al, help him to load up the plane and hook on a train of gliders...