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...licenses issued for the shipment of small quantities of goods to export large quantities of commodities high on the restricted list. Example: license No. 758,447 had been issued by the Department of Commerce for the export of a 1942 Buick car; the copy that went through the Custom House indicated that the license had been used to ship 1,000,000 pounds of flour to Brazil. The perforated word "validated," which made the license official, was forged...
...Cairo a Saudi Arabian official saw Azzam Pasha's statement in the press, defended Ibn Saud's gift. "Why, this is a fine old Bedouin custom," he said...
General Dwight Eisenhower, after only 2½ weeks in civvies, made the Custom. Tailors Guild's annual list of the Ten Best-Dressed Men. What got him the votes: his "erect bearing and easy stance" combined with his "discriminating sense of color and style...
...Senate Republicans split 24-23 on the most important tool of aid to Europe, ERP, and it was the Democratic minority that brought about passage of the legislation. Or, perhaps Mr. Bracken is referring to the magnificent stand the Southern Democrats are making to preserve that grand old southern custom of lynching and white supremacy. Or, maybe Mr. Bracken is referring to the Justice Department, which just sent that most democratic ultimatum to the Italian voters: "go communist and be barred forever from the United States...
Graduate schools the country over have the peculiar and annoying custom of asking for letters of recommendation from the instructors of hopeful applicants. When this concerns Harvard and other large colleges it is a useless gesture with no relation to reality...