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...China invasion as an anti-Communist crusade, the explanation of Japan's joining the Axis as "a means of improving Japan's diplomatic position visa-vis the democratic powers" in order to secure peace. Yet Author Kase's hatred for the army's trigger-happy expansionists sounds sincere enough. And he has little more regard for the navy, although he records that as late as Oct. 14, 1941, the naval high command seemed halfheartedly opposed to an attack. When warmongering War Minister Tojo dared the navy to state its apparent reluctance openly, the navy quickly backed...
...Mexican farmers began ambushing the control parties and shooting them down (23 were murdered in line of duty). Under the direction of the commission's cochairmen, Major General Harry H. Johnson of Texas, and Oscar Flores, subsecretary in Mexico's Department of Agriculture, A-men relaxed their trigger fingers and switched to a policy of strict quarantine and vaccination...
Since the start of the Korean war, the stock market has become trigger-sensitive to news from Washington. Last week the market was so ticklish that it reacted to news before traders knew what the news was. In the two days following the Fourth of July holiday, the Dow-Jones industrial average had chalked up a tidy rise of 2.5 points to 210.85. But shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon, the news tickers in brokerage offices flashed a cryptic message from Washington: the President would make an important announcement at 3 o'clock (i.e., after...
Hard-hitting, trigger-tempered Ted Williams thinks most sportwriters ride him unjustly and that the fans-especially Boston fans-are a loud, unappreciative lot. "I will never," he likes to repeat, "tip my cap to them!" Last week during a doubleheader with Detroit in Boston's Fenway Park, Ted hit on some less polite gestures...
...fighter. The race tracks had given him a marvelous judgment of speed and distances and a chilled steel nerve; in the words of one old squadron mate: "I've seen him go in so close he could hit the other ship with a baseball, before he pressed the trigger...