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Even the one-man lobby was startled by his success. J. J. (for Jag jit) Singh, president of the India League of America, got through Congress an amendment which will permit famine-stricken India (pop. 389,000,000) to share in the largesse of the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. He had finally put through something that India's timid official delegate had not even dared to bring up at UNRRA's Atlantic City assemblage...
High Test. In Italy, Army Intelligence Officer Orville L. McDonald, of Goose Creek, Tex., took a pull at a coffee canteen, got quite a jag out of the gasoline that was in it, later admitted that he had a "slight hangover...
Behind the Rising Sun (RKO) is an 88-minute jag of ferocious anti-Japanese propaganda. Based on facts reported in U.S. Correspondent James R. Young's book of the same name (TIME, May 5, 1941), the picture's somewhat redundant purpose is to make Americans madder at the Japs than they are anyhow. But just as human endurance has its limits, so does human credulity: the picture defeats its own purpose. Its grueling patchwork of cinematrocities is likely to make most cinemaddicts as mad at the film as at the Japanese...
...hustle?" If the answer is affirmative, the viper says, "Gimme an ace" (meaning one reefer), "a deuce" (meaning two), or "a deck" (meaning a large number). The viper may then quietly "blast the weed" (smoke). Two or three long puffs usually suffice after a while to produce a light jag. The smoker is then said to be "high" or "floating." When he has smoked a reefer down to a half-inch butt, he carefully conserves it in an empty match box. In this condition it is known, in Mexican, as a chicharra, or in English, as a "roach...
...agricultural economy, never saw a village as big as 20 houses until he was 18. As the American Revolution was followed by the industrial revolution, Jefferson lost his hold on the minds of men. In the '20s, while the U.S. was on its final materialistic jag and the only popular biographies of heroes were written by debunkers, he was a tarnished idol...