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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dealer, had some radical notions about capitalism. As a reporter for a labor news syndicate, he once wrote: ". . . Capitalism in the United States is rapidly passing into the stage which has marked the decay of many earlier social orders . . . The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people...
Peace was on every lip last week, repeated over & over like a mystic incantation whose simple reiteration could drive away the nightmare of war. There were songs about peace and a "peace dance." A patent-medicine company put out a new sedative tablet and proudly named it the Sleep of Peace. Prospective buyers could pick it up in a Peace drugstore and shuffle off to enjoy their rest on a Peace mattress. The first postwar Japanese civilian train to boast an observation car was christened the Peace Special and the government tobacco monopoly hired a corps on flashily dressed "peace...
After the 18-year lapse, the two teams resumed relations. West Point now had for a superintendent one Douglas MacArthur, whose theory that "wars are won on the fields of friendly rivairy" won one war and 11 Army-Harvard football games...
...Basil Rathbone tells the audience Toad inhabits his ancestral home, Toad Hall. Instead of acting with the dignity befitting a young man in such circumstances, Toad is a madcap adventurer, a faddist whose fancies often become manias of the most compulsive (and hilarious) sort. After cavorting about the countryside in a canary-yellow cart drawn by a horse named Cyril, Toad winds up in the Tower of London...
...State Insurance Commission is considering a plan to provide cheaper compulsory insurance rates on cars not driven by persons under 25 and not used for business. The rates on drivers over 25 would be reduced seven and a half per cent, while the rates on business vehicles and cars whose drivers are under 25 would be raised 23 per cent...