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...Carl Johnson, railway clerk in Minneapolis: "MacArthur should be made head of the whole shebang-Army, Navy, Air Force...
...towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two years ago pronounced his jitterbug followers morons, declared that the music business stinks, and, consigning the whole shebang to hell, left his band, got out of his contracts, went off to Mexico...
...trailers. His business done, he started to go home. Just then five Shetland ponies were put on the block. Knowing that his two children pined for a pony, Mr. Meitus decided to buy all five. Once fairly in his stride, he kept on bidding, finally bought the whole circus shebang...
Young's Case. According to this bitterly angry financier, the whole shebang is a result of "the interests" ganging up on him. Robert Young asserts that when the Vans ran C. & 0., its fat banking account was always handled by J. P. Morgan & Co. or by Guaranty, on whose directorate sit two Morgan partners. Morgan's, claims Mr. Young, also handled all C. & O. financing, which was never offered to competitive bidding from other investment houses. This business would now fall to Morgan Stanley & Co., Morgan's underwriting offshoot since the New Deal divorced deposit banking...
...also must have been a stunning blow to 560 men of a certain Northern regiment, whose time being expired, refused to stay over for an emergency. Three hundred from the same regiment did stay and, simply because of this, the whole shebang, goers and stayers, were bemedalled...