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...dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling in the South for maneuvers at Fort Benning this month, in Louisiana and Texas next month. By military precedent older than Xerxes, the commercial ladies should have followed the soldiers, not run away...
...plans, and Hollywood shows years of experience in reproducing the saloons and docks of New York of every age. Alice Faye feels right at home in her own tavern, having at last become an owner. Her thwarted love for Fulton descends upon Fred MacMurray, an uninspired but satisfactory waterfront bum who turns into a magnificent shipbuilder. Harriet Livingston, in the delightful person of Brenda Joyce, is the recipient of the best remark of a fair script, when Fulton, self introduced, says "Miss Livingston, J presume." Incidentally, they get married...
...Throw them out! Shut them up!" Members of the Congress, taking parliamentary procedure into their own hands, gave Mr. Tropea the bum's rush. Peter Tropea put up a fight, managed to break free and throw his book at an A. Y. C. officer before being ejected. The book was Cannon's Procedure in the House of Representatives...
Looking for something to put on the bum...
...point Browder was treated not as an ordinary American but as the Communist leader, the government's case loses its foundation. To the future he may be a hero or a bum who belongs behind the bars. The latter judgement seems more reasonable. But neither belief should have entered into the charges against him. They did--and for this reason U. S. Attorney Cahill has no right to look the American public in the eye. By the very nature of its charge, the government has proved that it wanted Browder...