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...better shut up, you stink...
...experts admit. It is said that you will bomb London from the air. All right, so what? . . . I admit that you could kill about 300,000 civilians. Certainly, if you think that over, you will realize that that will make you lose the war. Germany's name will stink to high heaven from north pole to south pole and it would draw the Americans into the war within a week. . . . It is true that you have the Italians as allies. We had them last time and we know all about them. . . . It is your Führer...
Omitted at first from the purple patches and golden numbers of New York World's Fair publicity was any mention of contemporary art. Outraged artists last year made a stink about this, persuaded Fair President Grover Aloysius Whalen to make room for an art exhibition under the seasoned direction of the Federal Art Project's Holger Cahill (TIME, April 25). Since then a modest, good-looking building has gone up and U. S. artists and museum directors have gone ahead with a national competition to select 800 works...
...school Thursday with a stomach ache. . . . Murilyn Estes uses her white shoes for an autograph al bum and likes to have all her friends sign their names along with little rhymes of poetry, such as : 'I dip my pen in ink and hope your feet don't stink.' " Editor Lath ers gets into plenty of legal fights, but as a onetime law student usually wins his own case. His paper has one catchall headline in which the first few words change each week, such as "WOOLEN INNER SHIRTS [or NEW RESOLUTIONS or HANDSLEDS] are ripe...
Quiet by nature, unobtrusive by preference, Robert Fechner had 'hardly taken hold at CCC before he got into a first-class stink. The Affair of the Toilet Kits in June 1933 concerned a persuasive salesman who got Louis Howe to get Robert Fechner to pay an outrageous price for 200,000 handybags. Although Franklin Roosevelt himself had casually endorsed the salesman, loyal Mr. Fechner took the blows from Congress. That body in 1937 repaid him by cutting his $12,000 salary to $10,000. (Mrs. Norton's bill would restore...