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...Navy "relaxees," also a new uniform. Bell bottomed, one-striped cuffs, and those inevitable 13 buttons. Plus this, a slight stay at Portsmouth or some other rest resort and then... a lovely 1943 model long handled mop, a bucket of water, a broad expanse of deck and thou beside if on the bounding main, resting between swabs. Of course, if you'd rather not relax, you can always...
...girls are reputed to be wizards with the broom and mop and guarantee to make any Navy household shipshape. Unfortunately, however, the service is thus far limited to Navy wives...
...member of Congress, who really worries about what happens to public funds, went farther, much farther, to find out. Last January, factory managers throughout the East and Midwest began to get visits from a mop-haired, jug-shaped man who began: "My name is Engel. I am a member of Congress representing the 9th District of Michigan. I am here to have you educate me so I can do a better job in spending your money. I have a right to ask, and shall expect your fullest cooperation. I want facts, just facts...
These two amendments were sponsored by mop-haired, eloquent Everett Dirksen, Illinois Republican (and close friend of Earl Smith, the brains of the American Farm Bureau). The House was on a violent rampage. Even veteran anti-New Dealers warned the members they were going too far. The young Turks would not hear or heed. They had tasted blood...
Tall, handsome Thomas Stanly Treanor is 35 years old, with a mop of jet-black hair and a shy face. He started out in routine fashion, reporting for Hearst papers in Los Angeles (his home). Later he joined the Los Angeles Times as woman's-page editor, in 1940 got his Home Front column to write...