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...Knoxville citizens generally were found to take little interest in radio; many said their sets were out of whack. Only 4% had ever heard a BBC broadcast...
...battlers to his White House office -not to fire them but to urge them to try to patch up their quarrel. Congressional committees carefully shied away from an investigation. No Congressman wanted to embarrass Jesse Jones further, and there seemed little honest chance on this occasion to take a whack at Henry Wallace...
...quarters in Port Moresby. The reporter was sitting on the floor talking to Kenney when MacArthur entered. Van Atta started to get to his feet, MacArthur told him to stay put. Politely, Van Atta still strove to rise. The General hollered "Sit down," and enforced the order with a whack on the shoulder that crumpled the cor respondent to the floor...
...million of RFC funds to draw on. But Congress, led by the farm bloc, is so dead set against subsidies that it has talked of specific legislation against them. And statisticians calculated that $400 million could roll back the price level only 1%. Yet Prentiss Brown proposed to whack 6% off the cost of living. Meanwhile, with the first roll backs scheduled for this week, no one had any specific plans for subsidies...
...Financier Eugene Meyer upped and bought the moribund Washington Post for $825,000 and became a newspaperman himself. Mrs. Meyer, printer's ink in her blood, immediately took a new whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA in a spectacular series of articles.) But her multitudinous other interests took too much of her time. Gradually her newspapering simmered down to review ing books by her great and good friend Thomas Mann...