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...indirect Government pressure. Any firm is entitled to tax-deduct, as a business expense, any reasonable amount of advertising expenditure. In the Treasury Department's hands is the power to say what amount is "reasonable." Businesses with no civilian goods to sell in wartime knew the Treasury would fix an unsentimental eye on large amounts of money spent to advertise products no longer being produced. And businesses still making civilian products also knew that the Treasury, aware of inflation, would look down its nose at advertising urging people to spend. Both types of firm, naturally, tended to shape their...
With & Without Bates. Optical orthodoxy is just a finger-snap to many U.S. therapists, whose offices have as many discarded eyeglasses as Lourdes has crutches. They will try to fix almost any eye disorder (except infections, tumors, etc.) by exercise. Some follow the theory of the late Dr. William H. Bates (died 1931) that the six outside eye muscles not only turn the eye but change the shape of the eyeball...
...books. In one of them the new crime of syndicalism is defined as "Any doctrine or precept advocating . . . unlawful acts of force . . . as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership . . . or effecting any political change." These laws are a menace to civil liberties because they do not fix the line between permissible and punishable utterances, and because, though they seem at first sight to apply to thoroughly seditious persons, they can easily be interpreted by juries in times of excitement of include peaceable advocates of industrial or political change...
...story concerns a racket king named Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) whose somewhat coarse way of life is interrupted by the Army. Despite his lawyer's efforts to "put in a fix" on his draft board, Jordan is clapped into uniform. By the standard Hollywood formula this should make a new man of him, but Jordan is really tough; he haughtily defies sergeants and Army discipline, finally kidnaps a pretty canteen hostess (Helen Walker) and makes a getaway. Then he discovers that his double-crossing lieutenant, one Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard), has usurped his racket throne and worked...
...mention of the word "food" reminded me of my erstwhile hunger, so I called down to the cook and told her to fix up a nice hot plate of forget-me-nots and to be sure and have a prettily-arranged vase of salmon and peas sitting in the very middle of the table. Because I felt that Dorothy May Anderson's father was right: forget-me-nots are more important than food. In fact, it's a wonder nobody has ever thought of them before. They would probably make a ravishingly scrumptious salad. Besides, I never did feature salmon...