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...defense effort. The union was bound to come into open conflict with the Administration, which is determined that the last isolationist labor leader shall not regain the power he has lost. With the public and the government so much opposed to its actions that there would be little squawk if President Roosevelt called out troops, the union is in a tough spot...
...Army found out last week that it could not do its housecleaning without raising political dust. Congressional pals of officers whom the Army swept out began to raise dust aplenty. Dustiest squawk came from Missouri's Senators: rabid Isolationist Bennett Clark and obedient New Dealer Harry Truman. The Senators were aroused because Truman's cousin, 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman, credited with saving the 35th Division from a rout at the Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board...
...running water fountains; his WPA was managed on a theory of Federal economy directly opposite to that of Harry Hopkins' WPA. But he has long reserved special wrath for a widespread business practice: submitting identical bids on Government contracts. Long ago Mr. Ickes discovered, with a Donald-Ducklike squawk, that there is almost no such thing as a low bidder; on many contracts all the bids were identical to the penny for hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of work and materials...
Duck-billed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has emitted some strange noises, but his latest squawk made U.S. motorists really jump. Secretary Ickes, now U.S. Oil Tsar, threatened the arrest of "jackrabbit" starters who needlessly burn up gas for the sake of fast getaways, car owners who fail to keep their old "oil-burner" crates tuned up to efficient combustion...
...Restaurant, other rendezvous from Park Avenue to Sixth Avenue, the Government men struck so swiftly and quietly that customers just thought service was a little slower than usual. At the Pierre, necks were craned when a waiter, led off by two officers, let out a squawk: "They're taking us to jail...