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...Seattle, where parched citizens gladly paid up to $8 a pint. In Washington, D.C., organized '"booze-buyer" gangs stripped store shelves of liquor for resale in Virginia and Maryland. Legal whiskey outlets ran out of stock in the states bordering Prohibitionist Mississippi (where OPA officials are "utterly powerless" because "theoretically there is no whiskey in Mississippi"). Even liquorish Manhattan scraped the bottom of its whiskey barrel: out-of-towners from the drought-struck sticks (plus jam-packed local bars) drained away almost all of New York City's bottled-in-bond...
...Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
...women & children listening to the Nazi commands, some with anger, some with disgust, some with resignation, all quietly. The luckless bravery of the conquered is shown in the slow glance with which a miner glances behind him for pursuers at a secret meeting in the hills; powerless loathing is shown in the slow movement with which a housewife pulls down an open window and shuts out the sound-truck...
Altogether the six anti-Nazi parties obtained 1,941,600 votes, almost 400,000 more than they got in 1939, and increased their seats in the powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143. The Germans deliberately kept the German minority (Schleswig) party out of the campaign, and the Danish pro-Nazi elements lost three of eight seats. Instead of praise for Germany's benign treatment, Dr. Goebbels reaped humiliating acclaim for Denmark's adherence to the democratic ideal...
...were the concertgoers of Macon, Ga. Day before the diva's scheduled appearance came a cancellation from her manager: "Reason is, she didn't like the travel accommodations. . . She said she positively would not travel in ordinary Pullman accommodations with the train full of soldiers. . . . I was powerless to persuade...