Word: win
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...TIME, Aug. 28, 1939), obtained a reversal by Joseph Stalin of the policy of the British Communist Party. Out as secretary of the British Communist Party went Harry Pollitt, who up to the day Moscow's orders were received had been urging British workers and Communists to help win the war. "The Communist Party supports the war, believing it to be a just war," had been Secretary Pollitt's policy. On the orders of Stalin, Pollitt made a complete recantation, swore allegiance to the revised British Communist Party line, which declares: "The present war is not a just...
...Britain on their war output. ... In the war's second winter we still have three-quarters of a million workers we cannot find use for. . . . Let every man in Britain ask himself whenever he feels like taking life easy, 'What have I done this winter day to win the war this spring...
...Houde was still Mayor of Montreal, and right up to election day his salary ($10,000 a year) was paid to Mme. Houde while he earned in addition 20? daily for work in the camp. Even under this cloud, last week Camillien Houde saw his political henchman Leon Trepanier win 15,591 votes, just 974 votes short of victory in a listless election...
Hallie Flanagan, fiftyish, is the widow of Philip H. Davis, Vassar Greek professor. She was born in Redfield, S. Dak., went to Grinnell College. Iowa, and Radcliffe, assisted the late George Pierce Baker at his Harvard dramatic workshop. In 1926 she was the first woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, on which she studied the theatre in twelve European countries and wrote Shifting Scenes of the Modern European Theater. Her admiration for the early Soviet theatre of Meyerhold and others stood her in bad stead when she faced the brand of dramatic criticism offered by Representative Starnes and Senator Reynolds...
...Continental Army. Cleared of the charge of cowardice after his defeat at Camden, S. C., Gates was second in command of the Army when the war ended. Washington had to exaggerate stray rumors of a cabal to cover up his inability to discipline his own troops, his inability to win battles...