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...Ashcan. Behind the impersonal figures are some colorful personalities...
...report from Michigan means that Frank E. Hook, belligerent spokesman of labor, is probably headed for the ashcan...
...might well be useful when he ran against ex-gangbuster Tom Dewey in New York's gubernatorial race. He was also giving Democrats the chance to say "we policed ourselves" in the event the country went Republican next autumn. Having tossed Andy May's reputation into the ashcan the Mead Committee last week roughed up another Democrat...
...myriad painting styles of the western world, but had also begun a hardy local regionalism of its own. Among its outstanding modern exponents was the "Group of Seven," formed just after World War I. They painted "the very look and feel of Canada," and resembled the famed "Ashcan School" which appeared in the U.S. in 1908 (Luks, Bellows, Sloan...
...order, OPA had wriggled out of a tough spot. Shortages in meats, butter and canned vegetables were real. But the victory cost heavily in moral prestige. Into the ashcan with the invalidated stamps went much public confidence in OPA. Housewives asked: Can Washington ever again be trusted to deal fairly with those who save? Do the rewards go to housewives who hoard the most food and squander the most stamps? Many a citizen, mindful of what happened to his red and blue stamps, began to look suspiciously at airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3, wondered if they should be spent...