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...across the Pacific, are the first units of a fleet of U.S. merchant ships bearing supplies for Russia. Some time during the next week or two they will presumably move into waters which are patrolled by Japan. These ships, said Tokyo, are embarrassing to Japan. But to a Japanese complaint last week Cordell Hull gave a cool answer. The U.S., said he, will stand by its historic policy of the freedom of the seas...
Balding, brooding little Gaston Henry-Haye, Vichyfrench Ambassador to Washington, dropped in at the State Department last week-ostensibly to register a complaint with Secretary Cordell Hull about the way the free press of the U.S. treats his country's leaders; actually to stress again that Pétain's collaboration was not quite material cooperation...
...bigger than, those with which he re-elects Franklin Roosevelt, the citizen believes Hitler means to conquer the world; is willing to risk war to help Britain win; would pay willingly twice his present taxes on luxuries like movies, tobacco and liquor; would put up without complaint with a general sales tax if the U.S. were at war; would cut his gasoline consumption by a third; would gladly train one day a week for home defense; would do this and much more if asked. But "he" is also a "she" in the U.S. when measured by the polls: the women...
Fonetix. In New Jersey, the Liquor Control Department got a complaint about "to meni yung womens skriming all nights." It pleaded: "All I wanted is more reasonable much more gwiter that we culd stay in our own haus and having a little of sliping. ... I hope you make my wish satisfatorelis...
...books. Meanwhile, they had encountered a very rugged character named James Franklin ("Frank") Dees, proprietor of the firm. Aged 60, weighing 200 pounds, his muscular physique topped off by iron-grey hair, an engaging grin and keen brown eyes, Phoneman Frank Dees fought back with a counter-complaint. He asked for permission to raise his rates, discontinue the exchange at nearby Livingston, force subscribers to pay their phone bills. Snapped he: "The kind of service they're gettin' is the kind they're payin...