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...businessmen, a year of rope-learning in the defense business had not proved encouraging either. Each of the two defense agencies with which they chiefly deal signalized the end of the fiscal year with an overdue crisis. OPM reorganized itself (see p. 30). OPACS met the first challenge to its price-fixing powers, prepared to battle for them in Congress...
Lenin early urged British Communists to affiliate with and disrupt the Labor Party. He wrote: "I want to support [Arthur] Henderson with my vote in the same way that a rope supports a hanged man." But all efforts of the Communists were beaten off by Labor's leadership, with the support of the rank & file. Last Communist effort came in 1937 when Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps (whose long-standing friendliness to Moscow was last week honored by Hitler himself as a casus belli} and a handful of followers tried to force the Labor Party into a Popular Front...
...easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers, and to the amazing Chinese capacity for regeneration. Thousands of coolies mend steel bridges with bamboo and rope, fill craters and landslides with little basketfuls of dirt...
Aboard the German ship he sneaked the roll out of the camera, slipped it and two others into. Murphy's pajama pockets as the Zamzam passengers were lined up for registration and made to empty out their pockets. Murphy had burned his hands badly sliding down a rope, and Photographer Scherman asked whether he could sign for Murphy and remove his wallet and passport for him. The examining officer, a tall, smiling lieutenant who spoke perfect English, nodded. The films stayed in Murphy's pajama pockets -even while he was being interviewed by the raider captain...
...little band in Chicago and joined up with Gene Krupa. Judging from a few late evening broadcasts I have heard in the past few weeks, I wouldn't say the change is doing Roy's reputation much good, for with one or two exceptions he concentrated on "instrumental tight-rope walking" rather than the excellent, tasteful jazz improvisations he has been known to perform in the past...