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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Meanwhile, in Washington, Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, author of the bill setting up the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority, raised his voice. Less than five months ago Franklin D. Roosevelt by executive order reorganized CAA, made it a board under the Department of Commerce. The change was made over the protest of airlines and pilots, who had found CAA's administration stern but effective, feared a change might wreck a great safety record. Last week Pat McCarran announced that he would begin a fight in January to make CAA independent again. Said he: "There is no branch...
Lamenting the book that the "Oregon Trail" might have been, if author Francis Parkman, 1884, "hadn't been a Harvard man," Bernard De Vote '18, editor of the "Easy Chair" of Harpers Magazine, opened the series of Freshman American Civilization Group meetings yesterday, with an informal talk on the American westward movement...
...from charmed was the Emergency Rescue Committee. They thought Author Feuchtwanger might as well be talking to the Gestapo. They wondered why he talked at all, believed that, whatever his motives, he had gravely jeopardized the Committee's undercover rescue work in France. They also wondered who had rescued Author Feuchtwanger...
Modestly, the Exiled Writers Committee disclaimed all but a small share in Feuchtwanger's getaway. In the escape of other writers the Exiled Writers Committee was only too ready to claim a share. Such were grave Heinrich Mann (Thomas' brother and author of more than a dozen novels) and Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh). As they bumped over the rough autumn waves from Lisbon a few weeks ago, the two novelists hugged themselves over their narrow escape from the Nazis. One day out from...
Once on dry land they had taken one penetrating look around, hastily developed an overpowering fatigue, disappeared. Also unable to attend (for reasons not stated) was Brother Thomas Mann, who, tired of being used as a Communist front, has avoided the League of American Writers for many months. Author Feuchtwanger attended...