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...Brooks and Braemar sweaters," echoed an unidentified tutor who left with Holabird; "they're loose. But these girls who try to look like a picture out of Film Fun--they disturb the digestion...
...officer said: "Nevertheless disturb him." The guard raised his rifle, but the officer was quicker with his revolver. "Stand aside," he said...
Utopia Undone. Commanding officer at Fort Bragg, N. C. is Major General Jacob Loucks Devers. Until last September his post was the peaceful habitat of some 5,000 field artillerymen. Aside from more or less perfunctory summer maneuvers, nothing much ever happened at Fort Bragg to disturb the routine of life in the hand some brick barracks, the pleasant officers' quarters, the not-so-pleasant, ramshackle quarters for noncoms. Some of the men at Fort Bragg had been there since World War I, hoped to die there. Older officers thought highly of Bragg as a quiet place to pass...
...words of Japanese spokesmen were full of meaning, in their contradictions as well as their consistencies. For the Cabinet, Spokesman Ko Ishii purred: "We do not see the imminence of war in the Pacific." For the Army,. Major Kunio Akiyama barked: "Japan will not disturb the waves of the Pacific, but if strong pressure is applied she will be compelled to take certain measures." For the chauvinists, Tokyo Kokumin shrilled that U. S. activity in the Pacific was "approaching a state of war." For the realists, Japanese correspondents in French Indo-China stated: "Japan will move against Anglo-American interests...
Taxes. The President asked for more taxes, leaving types and amounts to Congress. But he left no doubt that he is utterly opposed to sales taxes or processing taxes which do not disturb profits, but soak the consumer. Ability to pay he fixed as the guiding principle. From these clues taxperts could guess the shape of the bill that will destroy next spring's beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings...