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Every white, brown or yellow resident who hopes the New Deal will deal the islands four aces instead of a bobtail flush repeats those words. Hawaii is not a possession of the U. S., like Puerto Rico or the Philippines, but a territory like Alaska. Unlike Puerto Rico, which keeps all for itself, it pays into the Federal treasury income taxes, internal revenue taxes, customs' duties, has sent an average of $5,000,000 a year to Washington for each of the last 34 years. Its tax contribution is bigger than that of any one of 17 full-fledged states...
Last week for the first time the 73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
...Atlanta, a flush Air Corps captain lent $1,200 to penniless enlisted...
...Slick who became Mrs. Urschel. Slick Oil has sold most of its output to Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (Standard Oil of Indiana). In recent months, despite overproduction, other major oil companies have been seeking new crude sources. Oilmen are jealous of their reserves and no flush fields have been opened for several years. Last week Standard of New Jersey, through its mid-continent producing unit, Carter Oil Co., bought Slick-Urschel Oil and all its holdings for $5,000,000 cash (estimated...
...which to build their lives. There are countless other characters: a fake critic, a great poet, a great statesman, and the dog Macaire, an hour of whose life, set down in six pages, gives us as vivid a picture of the canine world as all of Virginia Wolf's "Flush...