Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other C. I. O. left-wing unions loudly reaffirmed their loyalty to their "great leader." A great leader or a repudiated man, Lewis had become the biggest issue in Labor. This week, with its annual convention just ahead, a jittery C. I. 0. faced a showdown. There was little question about John Lewis keeping his promise to resign. The question was what would happen...
...Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co. appeared to the side, drew recklessly closer to the transport. Frantically the VASP pilot waggled him away, but the De Havilland never changed course. Straight for the Heinkel it headed, swerving desperately at the last minute, catching the transport square amidships with one wing...
When "Life Goes To a Party On The Air" at Leverett House, Paul Wing NBC, and Bob White, WBZ, co-masters of ceremonies will bring to the WBZ microphone such Harvard-Brown football notables as Harvard Coach Skip Stahley, Harvard Captain Joseph Gardella, and Brown University Captain Louis Duesing. The Harvard Glee Club will entertain with several of their most popular numbers, while dance music will be supplied for the celebrating Collegiates by Lou Bonick and his orchestra, Feminine interest at the party will hail from Smith, Wellesley Vassar and Radcliffe...
...heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left wing's machine-gun crew through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly wiped out the boxed-in Moors. Late in the action he got a bullet in his knee, next day got typhoid. He recovered, fought again and was wounded...
From the time of his nomination (he was originally picked by the conservative, military wing of the P. R. M.-Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution), he has swung steadily Right, repudiated Communist support. Religious restraints on the Church are going. Whether the Church will win its fight against secular education is not so certain, though there are signs that it is making headway...