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...anti-war crusade of them all. These were the confident college youths who knew their elders had botched the last war and the peace; they would not fall for the hollow gag of trying to make the world safe for democracy. With tongue in cheek, they demanded their prepaid bonus immediately, for a war into which they would not drag the U.S. The Chicago University chapter offered the slogan: "We'll make the world safe for hypocrisy." In a parade up Broadway, V.F.W.s carried death's-heads, the drum major a crutch. The campaign landed the V.F.W...
Canadians have their own gripes: the wood-fuel situation is a mess; some believe beer rationing is a temperance plot by the somewhat arid Mackenzie King Government; the much-heralded "cost of living bonus" to peg wages to prices hasn't satisfied labor; the Canadian farm bloc-as in the U.S.-is on the loose to boost farm prices...
There was the handsome ex-Yorkville Jew-baiter, Joe McWilliams, resplendent in a red-white-&-blue necktie. McWilliams, the Great Profile of the American soapbox, is now the self-appointed leader of the bonus army of World War II. (He is agitating for a $7,800 government bonus for every World War II veteran.) His new backer, blonde, young, black-gowned Socialite Mrs. Alexis de Tarnowsky, accompanied him. Altogether, there were more than 1,000 of them (the Chicago Tribune puffed...
...remedial steps should be taken; neither has been. A bonus should be offered to neutralize the magnetism of high war time wages in industry and the draft status of teachers should be defined. This first step was suggested by Senators Hill and Thomas but action has not been taken. The needs of public education are sufficiently pressing so that the draft status of teachers should be clarified immediately. The objectives of public education and of Total War Mobilization, different as they seem, are not incompatible...
...above 1941. But the SEC last week revealed that the really supercolossal act of 1942 was put on by Loew's tycoon, Louis Burt Mayer. Mr. Mayer, the highest paid executive in the U.S. (for the sixth consecutive year), scooped up $949,766 in salary and bonus. That figure was 35% above his 1941 earnings, came within 5% of equaling the total increase in Loew's earnings for the entire year...