Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Manhattan newspaperman, "Red" Gallagher, then of the Post, went to Teaneck to get the story, was struck by Jessie's beauty and her lovely hands. Back he went to Manhattan, saw some friends in the commercial photography business. He knew advertisers frequently used pictures of hands, faces. One photographer who was interested was Hal Phyfe. Phyfe called, asked Jessie if she would model for him. She would and did. With her hands and face, Jessie earned enough money to buy artificial legs...
This left the Prime Minister sitting pretty except that a few Laborite backbenchers interjected occasional jeers. Said Laborite Josiah Clement Wedgwood: "There has been no denial of the prejudice felt in exalted circles against the holding of that post [War Secretary] by a man who was a Jew and who was the centre of the Goebbels propaganda. What circles got hold of the Prime Minister with these stories?" When Neville Chamberlain ignored this query, extreme Left Independent Laborite Jock McGovern jumped up and demanded: "Will the Prime Minister give a denial of that...
Oswald Garrison Villard, onetime publisher of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, is 67 years old, but when he went to Germany last October he nervily decided to answer the Nazis' "Heil Hitler!" with a "Heil Roosevelt!" Nobody gave him the chance to make such a retort. In fact, Mr. Villard reports in an 86-page booklet, Inside Germany,* just published in London, almost no one except Party members and officers in uniform now gives the "Heil Hitler!" greeting...
...core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while, went to Cornell in 1935. Author of five major treatises and some 50 miscellaneous articles on nuclear physics, he makes it hard for U. S. physicists and physics journals to keep...
Meanwhile Villa-Lobos was in Brazil, hard at work writing more music, organizing and conducting outdoor song festivals for school children, revamping the teaching methods of Brazil's Department of Musical Education, of which he is superintendent. Since 1931, when he was named to this post, Villa-Lobos has concentrated his energies on spreading music in Brazil. At Sao Paulo, in 1931, he staged the biggest musical event Brazil had ever known by conducting a chorus of 10,000 voices and an orchestra of 400 through a gigantic marathon of native music. Following year, he repeated the performance...