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...mixture of cowardice, confusion, misunderstanding. To beat around the bush of last autumn's Neutrality Act, the loan was restricted to non-military supplies. Michigan's nervous Representative John Dingell shouted: "To hell with Stalin and to hell with Hitler! . . . We restrict the loan for powder puffs, silken scanty panties and cream puffs, when we know the Finns need shrapnel,* buckshot, barbed wire and all the fiercest implements of hell because they are fighting to stop anti-Christ and the hosts of hell led by Beelzebub. ... Let every man stand up and be counted, let him vote...
...They may use powder & lipstick...
...creditor nation like the U.S. accumulating more credit all the time, and putting it out of her reach by the Johnson Act. Just how these possible threats to our neutrality will materialize is still uncertain, but they should be a warning to the government to keep its diplomatic powder...
When Palmolive merged with Kansas City's Peet Bros. (Crystal White Laundry Soap) in 1926, old Caleb Johnson was two years in his grave. When the combine took over the 122-year-old firm of Colgate & Co. (toothpaste, talcum powder, etc.) in 1928, his familiar green Palmolive Soap became the prima donna of the No. 2 U. S. soapmakers*-Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Today more people the world over wash with Palmolive (retail price: 7? a cake) than with any other toilet-soap. One reason for that is the factory Caleb Johnson built in soap-loving Australia. Chief soap...
...French on Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers gleefully fire their huts. In one grand blood bath all the Abenakis...