Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas, head of C.I.O.'s powerful United Automobile Workers, invaded Texas to test the law. In the little oil town of Pelly, he hoisted his 240 lb. to a platform, made an organizing speech while workers encouraged him with traditional Texas yells of "Pour it on 'em." Deputy Sheriff W. B. Milner whispered to Thomas' publicity man that "it wouldn't count" unless Thomas made a direct appeal to an individual. The publicity man passed up a note to his boss. Said he: "It's getting damned hard to get arrested these days...
...Trap. A German Mark-VI and four Mark-IV tanks suddenly appeared on the road. Atop a bare ridge, Sergeant Stanton Dobbins and his men got set with rifle grenades (see p. 68). When the tanks were 60 yards away Dobbins cried: "Let 'em have it." The first volley set one tank afire, knocked the treads off another. Other tanks came up, concentrated their fire on the slopes where the Americans lay. Some of the soldiers fled. Three more tanks were hit; the rest turned away...
Here the difference between East & West first becomes seriously apparent to Jean Arthur. Whitmanesque Mr. Wayne, who loves nothing half so much as his freedom and his horse, is of the delicate opinion that "women are like socks; ya gotta change 'em often." Miss Arthur, who has marriage in her eye, is sure that "any fella that can love a horse can love a girl." Charles Winninger, Wayne's elderly sidekick, tries to warn her that she is "barking up the wrong cowboy." It turns out that he is wrong...
...Smoke 'em Sister...
This line, in more practical form, was explained, to Carlson by a self-styled Detroit labor organizer. "You begins your work," said he, "by talking against the Jews and the nigger. The Jew got us into the war. You tell 'em that. The Jew is keeping labor down by controlling the money. It's the Jew who hires niggers and gives them low wages. . . . You ties in the niggers with the Jew, den you call the Jews Communists. That gets 'em...