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...Sperry Gyroscope Co. had so much skin trouble among its employes that it now urges workers in some departments to rub a protective cream on their hands before starting work...
What Elmer Holland made of it was a full-dress speech repeating his charges in more vitriolic terms. Cried he: "Daily these publishers rub at the morale of the American people. Daily they sow suspicion. Daily they preach that we are a nation of fools, led by rascals into a hopeless struggle. Daily they wear at the moral fiber of the people, softening it, rotting it, preparing us for defeat...
Listen, Judge. In Chicago, a Texas badman, Taylor N. Whichard, told the judge that if all charges against him were dropped, he would personally rub out Adolf Hitler. The judge, unmoved, gave him nine years...
Have we the ships? Aye, there's the rub. Well, we had ships to take 950,000 men to the Middle East, ships to capture Madagascar, ships to take huge convoys to India, ships to transport supplies to Russia, ships to save an army from Dunkirk, ships to keep this nation the best fed in Europe. Ships do not lie idle. They must be employed according to a rigid rule of priority. Suppose the Second Front became Number 1 priority. Perhaps then the greatest seafaring nation the world has ever seen would be unable to find the ships...
...means of protest, the Congress Committee recommended that Indians refuse to yield property under wartime requisition until the British Government pays in full. And, once again, Gandhi proposed to rub salt into the wound of British-Indian relations. The committee urged that Indians violate the Government salt monopoly by making their own salt. In 1930 Britain jailed Gandhi for leading 79 disciples on a 200-mile "Salt March...