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Defense Commissioner Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen held a press conference in Washington last week. He blushed. He dazed 30-odd reporters by calling them "Sir" and "Madam." At ease, his huge body hunched comfortably in his chair, he handled himself as adroitly as Franklin Roosevelt at his best. He also gave the best report to date on the state and prospects of production for U. S. Defense. Knudsen's prime points...
...were the expectant blondes. Brothels were closed; their staffs had fled. Bookies had shut up shop. Even bingo was outlawed. Tourist-camp proprietors conspicuously took the numbers of incoming automobiles, thus discouraging nocturnal disorder. Several city hirelings were fired, one because he had lived for years with a leading madam. A police sergeant on the vice squad was suspended, although he was a son-in-law of the chief of police...
...reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking such permission before the troops arrived, had the tallest yarn of the maneuvers. Turned down by a backwoods slattern, he inquired: "Madam, don't you know that Louisiana is at war with Texas? And don't you want Louisiana to win the war?" Said the lady of the house: "I sure do. Give me that paper to sign...
...smoking the catch for 'tween-meal tidbits, going to one movie a week as guests of the U. S. Army across the island at Fort McDowell. Now that they might not travel in Japanese ships, as planned, the Columbus' crew's stay appeared extended indefinitely, though Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins said she was "cooperating in every way" to send them home. Chances are they will be sent in batches to Central and South American ports, whence many an able-bodied Nazi (including twelve pilots of Scadta Airlines in Colombia) has been successfully smuggled past Britain...
There to hear him were almost every U. S. Senator** and Congressman, his Cabinet, uniformly (with the exception of Madam Secretary Perkins) clothed in turtle coats and striped grey trousers, and in the gallery children straddling laps, surrounded by mittens, rubbers, coats: Diana Hopkins, daughter of Secretary of Commerce Hopkins, the President's grandchildren, Eleanor and Curtis Dall; his uncle, Frederic Delano, his wife, his mother...