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Last week New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia emitted an angry Donald Duck squawk. Subject: U. S. draft boards. "The trouble with the administration of the draft in New York City," quacked the Little Flower, "isn't in Washington. It's in the laundry. I think someone is using too much starch in the shirts of the administration...
...pickers smarted but kept mum. When World War II canceled the Ryder Cup matches, Sarazen's squawk went the way of most sport squawks. Last month, however, when P. G. A. bigwigs were looking for ways & means to raise money for the Red Cross, they remembered it, decided to call Sarazen's bluff...
...also fix similar rates for iron ore, lumber, coal, sugar, cottonseed oil - and a rate that keeps oil out of pipelines. At I. C. C. hearing Shell Oil Co., Inc. (subsidiary of Shell Union Oil Corp. with millions of dollars invested in pipelines) argued against trainload rates. Biggest squawk may come from roads which fear barge competition less than price-cutting...
...Having raised many a squawk about balancing the national budget, the Republican National Committee last week confronted their own whacking deficit of $660,000, decided to wheedle 660 well-stocked Republicans into contributing $1,000 each toward a clean slate...
...voice protested at first, when the Pittman neutrality bill proposed to shackle U. S. citizens with 3,500 words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...