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Unlucky Seven. Subsidies and price control were two key planks in the President's seven-point 1944 legislative program. Congress has passed only one of the seven, the least important: mustering-out pay. The others have been pushed about, postponed or pigeonholed. One−the National Service Actis mackerel-dead. Anothercontract-renegotiation powers −was thrown around, then thrown into the tax bill...
...could piously claim that it had not violated the Little Steel formula. Technically it had not; but as a yardstick for real wages the formula is now mackerel-dead. WLB achieved its politically determined result by adding four and a half hours' work-at overtime pay-to the miners' week, and by allowing travel-time pay, something which it swore only five months ago it could...
Almost before the Secretary had finished reading his prepared statement, the U.S. Treasury's design for extracting another $10,500,000,000.00 from the U.S. pocketbook was mackerel-dead. Cried Democrat Robert L. ("OF Muley") Doughton, head of the Ways & Means Committee: "Utterly indefensible." Cried Republican Harold Knutson: "How much of it is for revenue and how much is for politics...
Things you'd never forget department; Scrambled eggs, mackerel and 0000-0400 watches notwithstanding, Company C activity has a generous quota of bright and funny moments which most of us will never forget. For instance, the "Stephenfetchit" shuffle and Alabama brogue of Douglas Folsom who perpetually and loudly defends the deep south and his ability to receive flashing light.... Arthur Bornfriend in the Harvard Union billiard room, strongly insistent on a three-cushion game at the start and then finally consenting to straight-rail after making one billiard in 15 minutes. "You should do seen me when I was good...
...different slang words were used. Examples: babe, bracelets, chee, crack pot, darn, dawgoned, diggity, flatfoot, framed, gal, gents, gorsh, heck, haywire, holy-mackerel, hyuh, janes, migosh, nope, nuts, O.K., phooie, scram, shux, tipoff...