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...nobody has doped out a way to reallocate the jumpy housewife's unmeasured hoard. If she plays squirrel again as she did in 1939 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939) ration cards will be the only way to keep her calmer neighbor in sugar...
...worse was to come. Back in Manhattan, Colonel Wedgwood was told what Burt Wheeler had said. The peppery old Colonel exploded. Said he: "Tell Wheeler to go soak his head. Who is he, anyway? He's from Montana, I understand, but what nationality was he originally?" In calmer tones the Colonel added: "We have had years and years of these wretched appeasers like Wheeler in England, doing nothing and hoping for the best. . . . At the very kindest, I say such people are misled...
...Syracuse race, which was rowed under very unfavorable conditions, the Crimson yearlings were simply "outmuscled" as Harvey Love put it. Calmer water might have helped, for then the Crimson's smoother rowing would have showed to better advantage...
...house, demanding to know whether he was a Witness and whether he would salute the flag. Reported A. P.: "When the man denied membership and expressed no objection to saluting the flag, the crowd became abusive and threw stones at the house." Not until calmer heads pointed out that throwing stones would do no good to Maine's summer tourist season did thrifty Down-Easterners stay their hands...
Senator George nearly hit the ceiling of his Washington office, rolled up his sleeves to denounce this New Deal calumny. Calmer friends restrained him, suggesting that the smearing had actually been done by Mr. George's friend Mr. Arkwright; no SEC party concerned had officially mentioned the Senator. In Washington a telephone line soon connected SEC Chairman Jerome Frank and Candidate Willkie, who might well have considered himself the target of a third underhand stone. Canny, calculating Jerome Frank's first administrative tenet is to lay off avowed foes of SEC whenever possible. Up to now, in line...