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When Harry Truman nominated his good friend, California Oilman Ed Pauley, to be Under Secretary of the Navy in January 1946, he got a rude shock. Senators, noting that the Navy buys great quantities of oil, were leary of Pauley's behind-the-scenes activities in the great tidelands oil controversy and let it be known that they would refuse to confirm him. After six weeks of stormy hearings, Harry Truman withdrew the nomination...
...celebrated Missouri mule, isolationist by temperament, has been having some rude shocks, is due for more. Mules sent to Mexico as replacements for oxen killed in the campaign against aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease) have been causing trouble because they were too pampered...
...movie has a certain well-mannered style and spirit which Hollywood seldom gives to a medium-budget mystery. (It might also be noted that Britain would have difficulty turning out a Dark Corner or even a Blue Dahlia, which had a certain rude style and spirit of their own.) Best thing in the picture is Scotland Yard (amusingly played by long-jawed, quinine-flavored Alastair Sim), who is almost as bungling as he is smug, and never loses his complacency, even over his worst mistakes...
...counsel of moderation: merely resolve to cut down on the sinning, don't make an impossible vow to cut it out entirely. He cites a realistic five-year-old penitent who resolved: "I will be a little better than before, I will hardly ever get angry ... or be rude ... I will almost always do my English lesson well...
...break his lease on his duplex apartment ($666.67 a month) which, the ex-Prince declared, not only "presented a somber, ungainly and disordered aspect," but also had rats. He suggested that $300 a month was quite enough. "I'm not being libelous and I'm not being rude," the landlady explained, as she reported that she had decorated the place "in a manner I thought fitting for an ex-prince...