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Britain's Magna Charta gave the power and prerogatives to the barons, who have held them ever since-the backdoor of the peerage-cum-charmed political circle always being carefully left wide open to "commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking...
...forceful, vitriolic speaker when he is aroused, Homer Bone is as unrelenting as ever toward the men he calls the big-dough boys." Besides Franklin Roosevelt, his enthusiasms are his son "Home," 16, locomotives, and oysters, which he sometimes eats for breakfast...
...fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
...stores part of the wheat crop as a war measure, sells a sizable portion abroad for needed foreign exchange. Thus last year, while the nation on paper produced enough for home use, Italy in fact suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage of the practice, began turning out queer tasting, colored loaves only 50% wheat flour. Public grumbling grew, scores were clapped into prison...
...headliner in Madison Square Garden. Suspended by the New York State Athletic Commission last winter because he insisted upon, training on beer and hot dogs in his Orange saloon and doing his road work at the wheel of an automobile, Bartender Galento, whose face is the color of biscuit dough, had been reinstated for no apparent reason three weeks...