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...replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...
...American unity Winston Churchill is a paradox because his Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother he respectfully admired...
...Francisco Gastrointestinal Specialist Dr. Felix Cunha charted the incidence of stomach ailments against the Dow-Jones average. Result: a rough X, showing that when business goes down, businessmen's stomach troubles go up. Said Business Week: "Logical as that thesis is, though, we'd like to work on the reverse of it-that when businessmen get stomach trouble, business recedes...
...whole problem of war orders in 1940, most U. S. manufacturers reacted patriotically but with caution. The Nye Committee was too fresh in their memo ries to give them any stomach for the munitions-makers role. The result was an apparent lack of ardor in the way industry went after war business. But with that coolheaded attitude, coolheaded William S. Knudsen was equipped to deal...
From what followed, two things were clear: 1) the U. S. manufacturer is anxious to do his duty, but 2) he has no stomach for war economics. Significant were the results of an Elmo Roper survey of public opinion for N. A. M.: only 10% of the U. S. believes that business is driving the country towards war (only 1% believes the President is doing so). Still fearful of future Nye investigations, still leery of munitions-making, many NAMembers took satisfaction in this low figure...