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...passed last week by the House of Representatives. The bill laid out more than three times as much as the whole New Deal Government in 1938, but the House approved it, 257-0. For war and for the peace the U.S. was committed to have and ta hold the greatest naval power on all the seven seas...
Durante: "Whaddya think will happen ta my nose if youse guys don't quit hangin' onta...
...Whatta dey wanna go messin' around faw? Whatta dey wanna scrape up da choon gum of fa da sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...
Brigadier General Merritt A. Edson, Marine veteran of Guadalcanal and Ta rawa, contended that Tarawa's casualties, relatively no higher than Guadalcanal's, had struck the public "more forcefully'' because they were suffered in four days instead of four months. Battle-hardened Merritt Edson declared that determined Jap resistance, rather than U.S. mistakes, caused the losses on Tarawa and would cause more on other islands. Marines particularly resented the suggestion in some reports that excessive losses off the beaches indicated bungled landings; at least half of the dead fell within the Japs' inner defenses...
...years) "Sergeant Dick," who got his name from calling everyone Dick. Talkative, Ozarkian, lanky, he harangued his platoon half hours at a time, often to heights of innocent eloquence, as in his farewell speech: "I ain't a sacred man, but we gonna win, 'cause we got folks ta home what's got a mighty big drag wid de Man 'at runs 'a whole shebang...