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...have defined the present political situation of the country as a struggle of men of good will who wish to contribute to the well-being of the Fatherland, against the eternal political gangsters who have no other aims than bingo games, the roulette wheels and other gambling means to acquire thousands of dollars at the expense of the people. . . . Now more than ever it is necessary that the Government have peace and order that it may better face the international situation and contribute effectively toward the defense of the Canal...
Owner of two swimming pools (one "last year's model"), star of He Kissed Her Twice and Bingo, Hope is cast as a craven, overpaid actor suffering from the approach of the draft. Marriage looks like his best out. but his selected victim, a colonel's daughter (Miss Lamour), suspects his intention. He stages a fake enlistment. It backfires him into the Army...
...outfit and Minute Men organization in the land open their meetings with it. ... Portland (Ore.) used it for the floral theme of its annual Rose Festival. ... It is played at all Brooklyn Dodgers home games, at the midget auto races at Castle Hill Stadium in The Bronx, at bingo games, and it was a standout feature of the President's birthday balls.... At Sheboygan, Wis., a local ordinance makes it a must at all band concerts along with America, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and The Star-Spangled Banner...
Last week Memphis had the cold-water blues. Gone from hotel lobbies were the expectant blondes. Brothels were closed; their staffs had fled. Bookies had shut up shop. Even bingo was outlawed. Tourist-camp proprietors conspicuously took the numbers of incoming automobiles, thus discouraging nocturnal disorder. Several city hirelings were fired, one because he had lived for years with a leading madam. A police sergeant on the vice squad was suspended, although he was a son-in-law of the chief of police...
...last week, a U. S. Citizen who had neither danced, knitted, orated, played bridge, bingo, banqueted or just shelled out for Finland was simply nowhere socially. The U. S. mood had changed: Isolationism had been thrown away with last year's calendar. On its March engagement pad, the U. S. had marked, "Save Finland...