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Current signs of amity, Aikman believes, are due to the Good Neighbor policy and the War. "The State Department . . . took its partial defeat at Lima with a minimum of moral pout and snobbery, and at Panama, in September 1939, it had its partial reward. . . . [But] the U. S. . . . came to Panama with the fiscal and economic power to ruin or succor a dozen or more republics whose trade ties and money links with Germany . . . had been completely disrupted by the War . . . Uncle Sam had suddenly become the only banker and grocer on his street." Unchanged remain the bottom facts that...
Thereafter, they never exceeded minimum expectations, save in the dive, where Bill Irvinc and Hank Gossler garnered second and third places behind George Dana of the Crimson; and Max Karus third gave the Ulenmen their 38th and winning point in the breaststroke...
...Roosevelt, who has won two elections at the head of as motley a horde of irregulars as Andrew Jackson ever led, pondered more recent history: the popular votes cast for Presidential candidates since 1920. One column showed Republican votes, good years and bad-an irreducible minimum of about 16,000,000 ballots. In the second column Democratic votes swung wildly from 8,000,000 (worst) to 27,000,000 (best...
Broadway's press agents (officially known as press representatives) number some 50 (a few of them women). About 15 really count. They are a special breed, with one foot in the theatre and the other in a newspaper office. They earn a minimum salary of $150 a week. (But it's a job in which a couple of lousy breaks might end a career.) They are suspicious characters to the public, which regards them as a kind of licensed liar who cooks up tall tales. Actually, their bread & butter depends on being strictly truthful. The newspapers are their...
...factory was going full blast under strict union rules: he had hired an assistant as soon as he handled two shows; a second assistant as soon as he handled four; a third when he handled six. His helpers were getting a total of $275 a week; he, a minimum of $625 and very likely about...