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...first real attempt to tell the score in the fog-shrouded Battle of the Atlantic, the committee had revealed this shocking fact: 1,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping were sent to the bottom monthly in '42, the losses outweighing new U.S. and British construction. Knox's tart retort that the committee's figures were compiled from "unauthorized and uninformed sources" was reassuring to the nation...
...Gallery. Cross is tart about some of the Government bigwigs, but essentially kind to most of them: > Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King is "Wordy Willie," but he gets full marks as a statesman and as the ablest rough-&-tumble politician on the North American Continent...
There were dark hints of an investigation of Davis and his OWI. Virginia's tart Senator Harry S. Byrd, who has quietly been looking into OWI's wastebaskets all along, was reinvigorated. Washington news beagles were spending many precious hours tracking down the rare and fragrant rumors out of OWI, whence came smells now overripe, now sulfurous. Each day brought rumors of reorganization, employes' rump sessions, secret caucuses. Many an OWIster was quietly looking for another job. The house might not yet be afire, but it was smoking...
...scholar (Oxford, Heidelberg, etc.), a Midwesterner who looks like a transcendent ward boss and has also been described as a "wandering behemoth." Friend Pepe is black-haired, blue-eyed, impeccable Pedro Francisco Domecq, Vizconde de Almocaden, U.S. representative of his family's ancient (1730) Spanish sherry business, whose tart, fluent radio style amiably betrays his delight at becoming a teacher...
...eliminating WPA and the food-stamp plan and trimming other expenses, the President reduced the budget for "normal" expenditures to $4,124,000,000 (36% less than in 1939). Chances are that this cut will not satisfy the Congressional economy bloc, led by Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd, which has a shrewd suspicion that many former peacetime expenditures are now masquerading in the war budget. Said the President, anticipating criticism: "I shall be glad to cooperate with the Congress in effecting further reductions...