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...Washington's first-terming Mon C. Wallgren, New York's busy James M. Mead. Also on the committee went cagey old Tom Connally of Texas, to see that the juniors kept their heads. For its first assignment, the Committee chose a modest chore: delving into the more flagrant charges of graft in camp and war-plant construction, plugging some of the more open sewers down which Government money drained...
...Nazi planes and U-boats were sinking ships bringing aid to Russia-or if the Allies landed in northern Norway, Germany might be able to defend her northern outposts only if Sweden allowed the shipment of reinforcements and supplies across Swedish territory. If Stockholm agreed, it would be a flagrant violation of her neutrality. If she refused, she could expect a German attack...
...GUERRILLAS, FAMOUS CIVIL WAR BAND OF RAIDERS, WILL FEEL SLIGHTED. I AM SURPRISED AT YOUR HISTORIAN'S ERROR ESPECIALLY IN A FOOTNOTE AS APPEARS IN THE 1 943 JAN. 11 ISSUE WHICH REFERS TO CANTRELL'S GUERRILLAS. CAN IT BE THAT TIME PRINTED SUCH A FLAGRANT ERROR...
Black Gasoline. Though misuse of a single gas-rationing coupon risks as much as a $10,000 fine and a year in jail, rackets in gas coupons have been the most flagrant of all, are bound to get worse as the oil-rich west is subjected to rationing. In New York City OPA broke up a gas-coupon pool that sounded like the Al Capone days, included gangsters called "Red," "Lefty," "The Mutt" and "Bananas." A Utica ring stole 8,450 "B" and "C" books, peddled them through a long chain of New York City racketeers who kept hijacking them...
Britain's Commando raids may have been undertaken partly as morale builders, but Haakon VII's German-hating subjects seem sold on the theory that Commando forays are preludes to an Allied invasion of Europe. Norse cooperation with the raiding parties is so flagrant that homes of persons identified with these invading shock troops are burned, their male relatives arrested...