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That settled, relieved Senators cheerfully got down to business. After chopping another $38,500,000 off the bill, they passed the rest in jig time. Their three days' work added $3,583,900,000 to the taxes U.S. citizens will pay next year. It was almost exactly what Treasury Secretary spring - Henry Morgenthau Jr. asked for last spring- and $367,500,000 more than the the House demanded...
Aglow with confidence, Conn came out for the 13th round. "I got you, Joe," he had taunted. But the champ was not the champ for nothing. And The Kid was still a kid. Instead of continuing to jig & jab, Conn did just what he had been warned not to do: he sailed into shufflin' Joe, began swapping punches. This was what the cool-headed champ had been waiting for. Before the swaggering youngster knew what had struck him, he was staggering under a bombardments of rights & lefts. Two seconds before the bell, he was curled up on the canvas...
...fear had WJZ headmen that ASCAP monitors would find Goodman poaching on the Society's preserves. His improvisations were never written by anybody, and most of the tunes he uses are of his own non-ASCAP concoction. Since his band plays better when jitterbugs jig, WJZ provided space for the more delirious members of the audience to strut their stuff. Feature of each broadcast is incidental jazz shop talk by Maestro Goodman, retailing in the self-conscious argot of swing the doings of various other popular musical heroes. Sample chatter...
...Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried in its own way to keep its head on straight. Franklin Roosevelt had taken the "silly, foolish dollar sign" off aid-to-Britain. Congress put the dollar sign back on in jig-time, and tried vainly to add on a few cent-marks...
...victory for China. What has kept the Communists fighting for Chiang is the fact that they fear Japan more than they fear Chiang Kaishek. If Japan (or Russia) could convince the Communists that they have less to fear from Japan (or Russia) than from Chiang Kaishek, China's jig would...