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With the Vicar's stirrup pump, a pitchfork and a spade...
...Lean, spade-chinned Captain Johnson had good reason to look happy, and did. Rifles put together at random from the hodgepodge of Universal parts worked well, showed an accuracy worthy of precision target guns.* After putting six years of intensive effort, $140,000 of his family's and investors' money into his inventions, he had at last hit the jackpot with $4,600,000 of orders on his books. This neat backlog consisted mostly of East Indian orders for rifles, machine guns and parts for several foreign makes, plus a small but promising Latin-American army order...
...some of India's 78,000,000 Mohammedans, suckled on the fighting creed of Islam, the nonviolent and democratic ideals of Mohandas Gandhi and his followers are sissified. It was among these fire-eating, creed-conscious Moslems that the Khaksars got their start in 1930. Officially the spade or belch is carried "to lift the humble dust"-it can also be used for drinking, cooking, sitting, skull-splitting...
Hell-Bent for War. General Hugh Samuel Johnson never calls a spade a spade if he can possibly call it a damned old shovel. He is master of the sprightly truculence peculiar to journalistic generals plus a felicity of invective all his own. But Hell-Bent for War is remarkably restrained. It is the first full-length statement of his position by an isolationist who insists he is only a realist, and whose verbal hammer-throwing at the New Deal and those who believe that the U.S. should enter World War II before it is too late, daily delights...
...Roosevelt is an excellent poker player, and probably one of the principal explanations for this is his continual refusal to call a spade a spade. He has been just one card ahead of the public since last June, and with phenomenal success has directed opinion into planned channels. This is his right as President, but to employ the methods of unfounded alarm and misnomer, as he is now doing on the convoy issue, is both hypocritical and dishonest...