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...Powerful interests" was all the hint the America-Firstish press needed. The Washington Times-Herald's British-baiting Frank C. Waldrop (whose capital dope is reverently quoted by the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News) picked up what appeared to be the ball and ran panting across several vacant lots. Lumping Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler together for firing good generals, Waldrop wrote: ". . . The fundamental question is whether our Army is to be used first for United States purposes or for the purposes of British Empire strategy General Marshall right today is out as Chief of Staff...
News is sold in a Lisbon black market. Smuggled, uncensored copies of U.S. newspapers and magazines find their way to neutral Portugal in the hands of seamen or of Clipper passengers. There they bring fancy prices. The buyers: Axis agents who want the latest dope on U.S. strikes, race riots, political discords, and who flock to Lisbon's airports and wharves every time a plane or ship comes in. Single, uncensored copies of the New York Times have sold for as high as $60. One copy of LIFE brought...
Last week, before he had time to make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...
...president of the South State Street Merchants Association: "The idea is we should be neighborly. All the racketeers and burglars I seen on this street they drop dead and what have they got? They didn't enjoy theirselves, they just rotted away. You don't see no dope fiends and no female impersonators or any of them funny people any more, the city has cleaned that up. ... Up on the other side of the street they get all lighted up for Christmas and they hang out flags on the holiday and they do a real business...
That dinner-dance without the dinner is still up in air. We except "Jake" and "Asch" will have the dope for us shortly. Meanwhile, be sure to see Bob sherwood or Don Swanger for tickets to tomorrow's Navy Relief swingeroo at Potter. Middles see company commanders. Everybody's goin', even my tired old room mates, I think...