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Under present law the RFC corporations can buy strategic materials and even manufacture armaments. Under the new law, RFC will be able to set up in any business at all-in competition with existing enterprises. Kewpie-faced Representative Jesse Wolcott shouted to the House: "This bill would . . . make it possible to establish a Fascist state in the U.S. It would give the President and the Federal Loan Administrator the power to do anything they saw fit to do so long as it was incidental to the defense program...
...jampacked Gowdy's Boathouse, the official weighing-in headquarters. The moment a fish was reeled in, contestants scurried to the boathouse (salmon weigh most when just out of water). There a radio announcer broadcast a weigh-by-weigh description of the catches. At 9 o'clock, when the all-in bomb went off, 75 salmon were lined up on the display table. Largest was a 27-lb., 5-oz. King, boated by a 19-year-old girl, Lily Torkellson of suburban Seattle...
...rate, a touring, Lithuanian-born U. S. wrestler named Carl Pojello met him in Singapore in 1936 in Le Laurier bar. One handshake was enough for Pojello. He took the Angel to Paris, taught him all he knew about the U. S. catch-as-catch-can, or British "all-in," wrestling business. Since then, in 140 matches in six countries, according to uncontradicted reports, the Angel has been unbeatable...
...butt of many a rebel British artist are the tidy, exclusive shows of the Royal Academy at London's Burlington House. Last month war's leveling influence did what peacetime protests had never done-made an Academy show really representative, also gave it much-needed ginger. At the "all-in" exhibit were 1,270 artists, including such famed newcomers to sedate Burlington House as Jacob Epstein, Wilson Steer, Duncan Grant...
...around an apathetic, intelligent provincial lawyer, Clim Samghim, who flirted all his life with the revolutionary movement, drifted with the winds of doctrine without ever finding harbor in a cause, a code of belief, a philosophy. Samghim's story was carried on-in so far as it moved at all-in The Magnet and Other Fires. Last week the fourth and last volume, left unfinished by Gorki at his death in 1936. was published as The Specter, showed Samghim just as irresolute as he had been in the preceding 2,000 pages...