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...they waited for their entrance cue, the doors clicked shut. Inside, wiry, hardbitten Councilor James S. Coffey of East Boston had seized the floor. Councilor Coffey once cut short a discussion on the morals of bribe-taking by remarking: "I'll take a buck and who the hell doesn't know it? I would like to see the guy who does not take a buck." Now he had a few thoughts about the visiting Japanese. "Mr. President," he cried. "I want to make a motion to keep them out of here. Will we forget the March of Bataan...
...sure he was on the right track with,his main idea. "It's a funny thing," he said. "People hear music and they don't know what the hell they like about it, but it creates a certain turmoil, a certain insecurity, certain things that are with us today...
...describing underwear as "Naughty-but so nice . . ." read in the Gannonized version: "Paris-inspired-but so nice . . ." When a Manhattan nightclub boasted that it possessed "Fifty of the hottest girls this side of hell," Censor Gannon deftly made it "Fifty of the most alluring maidens this side of paradise...
...election, Sewell voted Labor. This year he will vote Conservative for the first time. "Labor's greatest failure," says Sewell vehemently, "is that it has not made ordinary working people realize that unless we first tighten our belts and then get down to the business of producing hell-for-leather, this country will go bankrupt and there will be millions out of work...
...protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...