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...mind to do something that no sizable British Army had done since Major General Sir Charles Townshend capitulated at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia in 1916, and, before that, since Cornwallis gave up at Yorktown in 1781. He had a matter of minutes in which to decide whether to shake Winston Churchill's Cabinet, to depress all of Britain, to undermine the Allies' faith in British fighting...
...President William Green, C.I.O. President Philip Murray to close for the duration the schism between the two labor organizations. With a smile and shake of the hand the labor leaders agreed, went to work at once on a joint labor-policy statement on priorities, rationing and wages, to serve as wartime standards for all unions...
...must have the simplicity of the confessor. We all have need of it in different degrees-often to shake off our deep-seated egoism . . . and to consecrate ourselves to a truly free spirit and all our energies to the greatest of duties...
They number 19 young, talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...
...Nazis think themselves pretty clever in the field of psychological warfare. Secrecy surrounding the fate of their submarines is a counterblow the American people can give them which may serve to shake some of their superconfidence. ... All the people can make the same contribution. Even if you have seen a submarine captured or destroyed, keep it to yourself...