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...cleverest of U.S. rackets was moving in last week on the U.S. armed forces. The racketeers, known to Tin Pan Alley as the "song sharks," mulct their victims-amateur songwriters-for amounts up to $100 apiece. The U.S.O. is after the sharks, but civilian experience indicates that little can be done except to warn potential G.I. suckers. Most sharks manage to operate within...
Take a good look at the enclosed French 20 franc note (see cut). It's one of the cleverest methods of subtle noncollaboration I can imagine. The French people who gave it to me said that millions of these were circulating around while the Germans were here. . . . The effect is produced by inserting a German postage-stamp portrait of Hitler behind the French fisherman's rope...
This remarkable draftsman, the agents found, had made the cleverest copy of the Great Seal of the United States that they had ever seen. He had made his almost perfect copy of the U.S. spread-eagle not once but 90 times, on a 10 x 18-inch sheet of cardboard. The sheet was photo-engraved into a zinc cut of the same size...
...result of all this foolishness, which incidentally, includes one of the cleverest dream sequences we've seen, is that the uncouth sand-hog, whom, Claudette bates, detests, despises--only we know better is transformed by some hocus-pocus into an eligible, even desirable future mate...
Crowned last week was the cleverest, scrappiest U.S. railroad king of the New Deal era. The new king was ruddy-faced, grey-haired, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Chairman Robert Ralph Young, 45, who has direct or indirect control of 23,000 miles of track rambling through 21 States...