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...Navy, which is not celebrated for liberalism in handling its race problem, announced unprecedented measures to broaden the scope of its Negro personnel. > Twenty-two Negroes will be commissioned in the Naval Reserve, the firstr in the history of the Navy. Twelve will be selected from qualified enlisted men for line duty as ensigns. Ten civilians will be appointed to serve as ensigns or lieutenants (junior grade), two each in the Chaplain, Dental, Medical, Civil Engineer and Supply Corps...
...including John Hancock and limey), guides to pronunciation (especially for Englishmen) and often etymologies. The DAE's weakness in unprinted language may be connected with a reluctance to include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted. The DAE's scholarly scope is enormous, and Editor Craigie recognizes the role of plain people in making speech. But in many vital respects Henry Louis Mencken, now at work on his fifth edition of The American Language, can still show the way to the professors...
...scope of censorship was being reduced. Byron Price added that he hoped the whole business would be stopped the minute the last shot was fired. But what pleased newsmen most was that the workmanlike Office of Censorship had taken public cognizance of the perverted censorship that had often given the U.S. news mangled, incomplete or too late...
...Soviet Union, the U.S. and Great Britain are in "complete agreement as to the scope and timing of the operations to be undertaken from the east, west, and south...
...have concerted our plans for the destruction of the German forces. We have reached complete agreement as to the scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from the east, west and south. The common understanding which we have here reached guarantees that victory will be ours. No power on earth can prevent our destroying the German armies by land, their U-boats by sea and their war plants from the air. Our attacks will be relentless and increasing...