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...Salt Lake City Willkie made a minor boner. Newsmen, with Utah mining and cattlemen in mind, asked Willkie his position on high tariffs. Said Wendell Willkie: obviously, he was against them. Then he added: "Asking me that is like asking me if I favor sin." Around high-tariff-minded, sin-conscious Utah went word that Willkie thought all tariffs and sin synonymous...
...crashing boner in teaming up with Hitler was now added inescapable evidence that Finland had waited too long to open negotiations with her big neighbor and old enemy. Yet Ryti & Co. could not bring themselves to talk hard peace sense; Finland's-innate distrust of Russia was still powerful. Fortnight ago Premier Edwin Linkomies let it be known that Finland would like peace-if she could have her 1939 frontiers. Last week Russophobe Finance Minister Vaino Tanner said Finland would be glad to resume normal relations with Russia, provided "we could get a guarantee that we will...
...Prize boner on the final may well have been pulled by the man who said that he would give the C. O. the combination of the disbursing office safe if he looked honest! The correctors are reported to have learned many new facts of disbursing from reading exam answers pertaining to allotment procedure, copies made of Treasury checks, Treasury statements and payroll vouchers...
...average in such assignments. There is a good deal of unfortunate, hackneyed talk about someone called John Q. Public. And in a closing shot of the two halves of the world, the Eastern Hemisphere (described as "slave") is shown being totally eclipsed by the Western Hemisphere ("free"). This appalling boner is strongly counteracted by the film as a whole, but could be seriously misleading...
Exit McNear. Last March McNear pulled his most ruggedly individualistic boner. As defense traffic got snarled on his strike-bound railroad (over 150 cars were tied up at one time), he waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...