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...There were dissenters. Many a thoughtful U.S. citizen asked what State Department policy was, anyhow. Why had Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and idealistic Nelson Rockefeller, presumably having much of the dope on the Argentines at the time, led the fight for Argentina's admission to the UNO at San Francisco last April? Others, including many a Latin, noted that the U.S. attack came at the climax of the Argentine presidential campaign, called it intervention...
Tokyo's 41st Division basketball team upset the dope by whipping Okinawa's Flyers (Long Island University's 1942 wizard team almost intact), then flattened Hawaii for the championship...
...correspondents, said Mencken, were "a sorry lot, either typewriter-statesmen turning out dope stuff drearily dreamed up. or sentimental human-interest scribblers turning out maudlin stuff about the common soldier, easy to get by the censors. Ernie Pyle was a good example. He did well what he set out to do, but that couldn't be called factual reporting...
...measure to revive trade, today's opening was actually more symbolic than real. With currency still unstabilized, banks will be unable to handle foreign-exchange transactions. On Shanghai's native money market the hot dope was that the rate of exchange might be set this month at one thousand Chinese dollars to one American dollar (prewar rate...
...Inside Dope. In San Francisco...