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...were just ready to start when all of a sudden bullets came whipping savagely right above our heads. Vicious little shells winged into a grassy hillside just beyond us. Finally the order to start was given. Soon we could hear rifle shots not far ahead, the rat-tat-tat of our machine guns, and the quick blirp-blirp of German machine pistols...
...Hillman, a brash young man in high lace shoes, who spoke hopelessly fractured English, persuaded the strikers to ask for modest terms. This was a great accomplishment. He gained the friendship of Joseph Schaffner, who took a sudden vow to better conditions in all his factories. Finally, Sidney Hillman slipped a clause into the strike settlement calling for a permanent arbitration board, an almost revolutionary innovation in labor relations...
...Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick of ranging from a whisper to a sudden roar. In a swift series of 500 campaign speeches, young Bob Bradford last week finished strong even in some stout Irish precincts, where to be a Yankee and a Harvard man is to be twice-damned...
...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
Down with B.I.S. The Norwegians tried to open a hornet's nest with a sudden proposal that the Bank for International Settlements at Basle be liquidated and a commission appointed to investigate its policies during the war-a direct hint that B.I.S. deals have been pro-Nazi. The Dutch and several other European nations opposed this suggestion on grounds that B.I.S. was the first international financial institution that ever worked, and that the assets of the Bank belong to Europe's central banks, which alone have a right to liquidate...