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...answering roar of "Bull Bill" could be heard by 130,000,000 rubber-conscious Americans, as he in tended it should. In a warm-up for Patter son, Jeffers ripped a horn into OWI's Elmer Davis for gloomily predicting that the nation was too optimistic about rub ber. Jeffers harshly said that Davis didn't know what he was talking about, stuck to his previous announcement: civilians would be purchasing synthetic tires early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something away. The difference...
...perchance still more! Aye, there's the rub...
Crotchety Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the prima donna-packed House Ways & Means Committee, felt the tax rub. His own soliloquy: "We are dealing with the most hateful, difficult problem that ever came along in the annals of mankind...
...lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses were light. They still held Beja and Medjez-el-Bab - and Arnim was frustrated until he could take those two key points. If he could capture Beja with its pretty, tile-roofed houses and its oft-bombed rub ble, the whole Allied line would have to fall back; the final Allied offensive might be set back many weeks...
...Hounds Club. Mr. A. J. Brodtmann, disbursing instructor, C. K. Richmond, W. W. Robinson, D. L. Moonie, F. J. Payton, and R. Raab made the arrangements and were responsible for its success. Singing, Rathskeller style, was led by F. Payton and later in the afternoon J. Rub and H. Platt entertained with several piano novelties. Guest of honor was Lt. Comdr. F. W. Hesser...