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...role hard and the galleries suspicious. Editorialized the New York Times: "It may be possible to be more tactful in dealing with Congress; it may be possible to improve the functioning of ceilings and rationing; but it is not going to be possible for anybody to achieve a painless solution of the problem of wartime inflation...
...their high-school teachers' arms. A few more Texas mothers may vote for "Pappy," but politics not military necessity will have called the tune. As amended the bill remains an election measure, proving to the people that Congress is allowing the Army requisite manpower, but making the proof so painless that it can not help the progress of the war. Congress has effectively postponed the controversial issue, induction of married men, until after elections by throwing a new group into the military pool, but if the O'Daniel amendment stands the new eligibles cannot be classed as military effectives...
...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...
...Cross center is right at Copley Station, only fifteen minutes from here. The performance is painless and only takes an hour. What could be more simple...
Three hours of your time next Monday night will perform an invaluable service for the U. S. Army Air Corps. The evening will be painless, cost no money, entail no obligation, and will probably be interesting to boot. The occasion is the new mental examination which the Army Air Corps has just devised, and which will be given its first tryout at Harvard. Four hundred undergraduates are needed to act as guinea pigs, and while many Freshmen have already volunteered, the services of at least 150 upperclassmen are urgently needed...