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...Amid the hue & cry of Congressional debate, a political revolution of at least minor importance was about to be enacted this week. Ready for final passage was the soldiers' vote bill. And though Southern Senators might weep and States' rights theorists tear their hair, the bill suspended poll taxes for the duration of the war, as far as soldiers and sailors are concerned...
...barnacled cargo bottoms the U.S. was still taking a nasty booting from the Axis. The kicking around, started five months ago, had sunk some 250 ships, disrupted coastal shipping, raised a great hue & cry in the press for sterner anti-submarine measures by the Navy...
...recruiting got under way, the press -and the Roman Catholic Church- started a small hue-&-cry about woman's place being in the home. And the WAAC ruling that pregnancy means automatic discharge from the corps fetched a remark from Mrs. Margaret Sanger that the Army should give contraceptive information to WAACs...
Immediately there arose a hue & cry that Colonel Blimps and toffs with swagger sticks were trying to run the people's army. Others, just as alarmed, shouted that the revolution had come. One Peer of the Realm cried out: "You know, all they plan to do is cut our throats one night...
...division, at the rate of $8,000 a year (when he worked at it; he is still in the movies). Straightway Congress sounded off. He's a Red, cried California's Leland Ford. He isn't, either, cried California's Jerry Voorhis. This hue & cry flushed another playmate-protégé from OCD's covert: one Mayris Chaney, a toothsome blonde dancer who in 1938 had made up a dance which she gratefully called the "Eleanor Glide." Miss Chaney was in charge of the children's section of OCD's physical fitness...