The Archive · 1940

American Oddments

It has been figured out that the new U.S. tax bill will go far toward meeting the cost rearmament if the citizens will raise their income from 70 to 90 milliards of dollars.

ProPLE are assured that Wendell L. Willkie registered as a Republican in 1936 and stood by London and Maine and Vermont (the only states who had a Republican majority) in their dark hour. This act of bravery should atone for his dubious Democratic past.

Among those who have taken up the fight against Fifth Columnists are the Associated Farmers of California. Out in their count an F. C. is a subversive fellow who wants wages for picking fruit (note—"Grapes of Wrath").

The Gallup poll reflects a shift in sentiment 56 per cent. of the vote. The only sure G. O. P. states at the moment are Maine, Vermont, and since the Blitzkrieg and gives the Democrats a charming stranger, South Dakota.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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