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Morse's annual income in good years has been estimated at $260,000. He spent $150,000 on two California homes. When stiffer wartime taxes came along, Morse hired a businessman friend of his to run his financial affairs. The friend now doles him out a modest $30-a-week allowance for lunches, smokes and gin rummy losses...
Stiffening Lip. In Washington, where Ambassador Spruille Braden had arrived from Argentina to take over the direction of Latin American affairs, the mood was for a stiffer U.S. policy toward the dictators. After a talk with Braden in Rio. U.S. Ambassador Adolph Berle informed Brazilians (and President Getulio Vargas was listening) that the U.S. expected the upcoming Presidential elections to go through on schedule. This statement, coupled with Braden's spectacular campaign against Peron, augured a vigorous U.S. policy at the imminent (Oct. 20) Inter-American Conference...
...learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady ("Question: What bird furnishes military plumes? Answer: That beautiful bird, the common cock of our farmyards: the long streamer feathers of his neck and back, and the stiffer ones of his tail, are formed by industrious females into a variety of elegant shapes, according to regimental regulations...
...Japanese defenses, "Buck" Buckner knew, would grow even stiffer; tough fighting was bound to come. But he knew, too, that Japan's best chance to turn back this invasion-the period when the first troops were coming ashore-was gone. Perhaps counting too much on a three or four months' delay between the end of the Iwo Jima fighting and the start of the next U.S. operation, the Japs had delayed reinforcing Okinawa's garrison. Certainly the Japanese commander had pulled a major blunder; he had prepared for attack from the east and south, found himself fighting...
...opposition was thin and scattered. The Japs had pulled back from the black-ash beach, but they were calling their shots. In the next two hours, the leathernecks drove inland 600 yards to No. 1 airfield. The farther they went, as the day wore on, the stiffer the opposition...