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...even give him time to shave. They hustled him off to New Haven, charged him with sedition. In a Silver Shirt magazine, The Galilean, two months after Pearl Harbor, Pelley had written: "The typical American . . . gloats when any of the Axis powers reports success abroad-even against our own forces." Pinched, he pouted: "There hasn't been a damn thing in the magazine that Boake Carter, 'Ironpants' Johnson, Father Coughlin and many others haven't also said...
Usually he shaved in leftover lukewarm tea, but this morning, knowing he might not shave again for a fortnight, he had allowed himself the luxury of heating water to shave...
...back room is the room. About 75 beds take up most of the floor space. ... Off in the back corner is a walled-off room with free showers, about a dozen of them. Free towels, free soap, free razor, razor blades, shaving cream, after shave lotion, tooth paste...
Joint returns were dead as far as the committee is concerned. Also dead was the Treasury plan to abandon the average-earnings base in computing excess profits. The committee might shave surtaxes for the $5,000 to $20,000 group, will probably add some new excise taxes if only to have them on hand as bargaining points in wrangling with the House over broadening the income base. By merging last year's special defense tax with the surtax rate, the committee proposed to increase the lowest surtax rate from 5% to 6%, readjust upward the rate for higher brackets...
Sleepily squirming into their warm flight jackets, the students straggle below for a muster. A quarter-mile run around the barracks gives them an eye-opener before they shave, make up their double-decker bunks, sit down to a hearty breakfast served up by corpulent civilian Concessionaire Moe Greenspan, better known as Moe the Greasepan, who loads their stomachs with 80 pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very...