Word: petitions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Petit Parisien reported fortnight ago that they had been butchered and sold piecemeal to famished French housewives for 10? a pound...
...Detroit Lakes, Minn.; John A. Ordway, 2d. '42, Franklin, N. H.; Robert Paine '42, Memphis, Tenn.; Harold C. Passer '43, Faribault, Minn.; Donald J. Patton '42, Cortaro, Ariz.; Dick S. Payne '43, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Daniel M. Pearce '42, Ripley, Tenn.; Jack M. Peterson '42, Portland, Ore.; Alan W. Petit '41, Berkeley, Calif.; Chris G. Petrow '41, Webster City, Ia.; Norman H. Pike '42, Sioux City...
Chief looseners are a trio of sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan...
...Lewd. The day of "fat, puffing State employes" was also past, according to Le Petit Parisien, which announced the introduction of compulsory physical training. To Vichy, after escaping the Germans three times as an artillery captain, went France's famed "Bounding Basque," tennis star Jean Borotra, to become Secretary General of Physical Education. Insisting that he is no politician, only a sportsman, Borotra announced that physical education would henceforth be as important as intellectual education, surmised that his job would be difficult because of the nation's "softness and previous indifference...
France had not only been defeated in battle; her institutions had been discredited. Said Le Petit Gironde of Bordeaux: "Thus came the end of 20 years of errors and faults. We shall not say of crimes, since we still believe that those who have brought us to this pass were merely ignorant and blind-but they have drawn us into an adventure that dumbs us with stupor." So shattered was France's strength, so humbled her prestige, that a greater miracle than Germany's rise after Versailles would be needed ever to restore them...