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Labor Party leaders tore their hair. Herbert Morrison, Labor Party policy maker, denied that his Party would ever use violence. Cried Labor Party newspapers: "Another Zinoviev letter...
...Lord Halifax came to the Big Powers' defense. "These documents," said he, "represent the highest point of agreement among the Big Five and they cannot be further modified." Barked Connally to the objectors: "Do you want to tear up the charter?" To emphasize the point Connally tore to confetti some papers in front...
Lusty Hero. But the sight of a maimed Union soldier changed his plans. He became a passionate supporter of homes and pensions for disabled veterans. He tore the field of Gettysburg from the hands of souvenir hunters, made it a national shrine. He arranged the famed Gettysburg reunions of Blue and Grey. General Longstreet became his bosom friend. "[Your stand at Gettysburg]," wrote Longstreet, "was the sorest and saddest reflection of my life for many years; but today I can say . . . that it was . . . the best that could have come...
...Franklin's volatile cargo-40,000 gallons of aviation fuel, .50-caliber, 20-mm. and 40-mm. ammunition, armor-piercing and incendiary bombs-began to explode. Rockets whooshed through the air. Livid white flashes tore the smoke. Gasoline gushing from open lines flowed across the decks, carried fire four decks below, cascaded over the side and set the sea ablaze...
...fire raids on Nagoya tore a great swath through the center of Japan's third largest city and major aircraft production center. Two raids by more than 500 bombers each burned out nearly one-fourth of the city, hit the Mitsubishi Aircraft works (world's largest in area) and some 30 other military targets. At week's end B-29s turned on Hamamatsu, 60 miles southeast of Nagoya, to bomb more factories...