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...terrible-tempered Mr. Bang. Each day he arrives for work in a state of condensed fury. Moment the House convenes and the prayer is over, Mr. Rich, bursting with wrath, demands the attention of the House, then explodes. His constant subject is the national debt, his constant refrain, "Where are we going to get the money?" For years Mr. Rich has stuck to his point and that question. The House has become so used to Mr. Rich that members often join in the chorus, roaring in unison: "Where are we going to get the money...
...press associations, newspapers, broadcasting companies and photographic agencies who have cooperated. . . . It is true that many people can see these ships as they arrive. ... It is also true that enemy agents can report these movements; but it seems to me only sportsmanlike that the keen American press refrain from giving a report of these ships for it the benefit of press's Britain's enemies. ...." As it was, the press's self-censorship merely concealed from the U.S. public a fact that was not even mildly camouflaged from German officials, whom the U.S. Government allows to operate...
...like TIME. I wish that TIME would refrain from using the term "isolationist." No one in the U. S. is one. We all realize that the world is constantly growing smaller...
Last week B. M. I. got out from under a Department of Justice anti-trust suit by "consenting to refrain from monopolistic practices." In its agreement with the Department, B. M. I. promised among other things to license its music on a pay-when-you-play basis, to permit customers to choose tunes they liked without taking the whole B. M. I. catalogue, to offer its music to all users of the same class on equal terms. Since ASCAP hasn't yet given in to the Department, B. M. I.'s consent decree will not go into effect...
Donovan explained that the purpose of the whole Youth Administration program is to give jobs which will make it possible to train young people for their vocations. For that reason the Administration suggests to the colleges that they refrain from giving jobs of the watchman or janitorial type and favors office or clerical work and laboratory work as much as possible...