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This week the C.W.V. monthly paper, the Catholic War Veteran, published the third in a series of editorials giving the results of the probe. The Veteran named names, but did not actually pin a Red label on anyone. Instead, it published a sort of catechism, and then listed the names of some "two-timing Catholics" it would like to have answer its questions. Said the Veteran: such persons "publicly profess Catholicism under circumstances or in situations which make such profession suspiciously beneficial to a suspiciously anti-Christian cause...
Market In Grey. Solely responsible for this state of affairs was the "grey market daisy chain" of steel brokers. The committee was not able to pin down the exact workings of the grey market. But the plain assumption was that steel flowed into it from brokers able to buy from mills, by virtue of prewar dealings, or from manufacturing companies with excess supplies. Instead of canceling their mill orders, as they usually would, these companies took delivery and turned the steel over to brokers at a fat profit. As each party in this daisy chain got his cut, the price...
...Mason Richards, U.S.N. Mrs. Richards spoke of her husband as "the Skipper," but said that "most of his Navy friends called him 'Possum Belly.' " When the Skipper died in 1944, Mom decided that, out of respect for his memory, she should wear a war widow's pin. To her surprise, she found that there were no pins for war widows...
...invented one. Dime-sized, it featured a cerulean teardrop oozing from a dark blue morning-glory. Around its edges, in gold and blue, were the words: "WAR MEMORIAL AWARD." In her hotel room, Mom wrote a poem to go with the pin...
...that there is a certain critical time when unmarried fathers are most amenable to the idea of marriage: when the sense of guilt is at its height, but the sense of being trapped has not yet set in. When that moment passes, it rapidly becomes more & more difficult to pin a father down...