Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mackerel Note...
...Broadcasting System" big enough to compete with NBC and CBS. Through mutual friends, he appealed to John Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., for $200,000 to help finance his radio ventures. Hartford met him, lent him the money, accepting Elliott's six months' note. As collateral, he took something which banks would not accept-shares of stock in some small Texas radio stations (how many shares Hartford could not remember offhand...
...Elliott filed a claim with the receivers and collected $33,438. A year later, Texas' Jesse Jones, then Secretary of Commerce, called Lawyer Ewing to tell him that (according to Ewing) "the Roosevelt family" wished to settle Elliott's debt. Lawyer Ewing turned over Elliott's note and collateral and Jones gave Ewing a cashier's check for $4,000. Said Ewing: "The whole thing was closed...
Planes parachuted three copies of the note into the enemy positions. But the likeness which Buckner saw between himself and the unnamed Japanese commander was not even skin-deep. The enemy, with 32½ hours in which to decide, let the opportunity pass. The surrender proposal was ignored; Buckner's troops went on with the killing...
...salvos, at the rate of 500,000 to 1,000,000 leaflets daily. Principal target of these broadsides is the gumbatsu, the military clique which rules the empire: ". . . our bombers will return . . . many times, as long as your militarists continue this war." A small leaflet like a 10-yen note bears on the reverse: "The gumbatsu is wasting your tax money. For this war the gumbatsu has spent the equivalent of 5,000 yen for every Japanese. Think what you could have done with that...