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...destroyer on Atlantic patrol, picking up survivors from a British vessel, was approached by a German submarine, let go three depth charges. Said the columnists: "Although the President is waiting for the Germans to shoot first . . . there has been shooting already. . . . The interest of the Germans is to avoid ... an incident. It is perfectly possible that the submarine was in fact sunk, and that the Germans have suppressed all public complaint. . . . The Navy ... is fully ready to act. ... It is far from improbable that preventive occupation of the Azores and the Cape Verdes, or the garrisoning of Iceland will...
...Communications Commission kicked about the dual roles played by the talent bureaus of the two major networks in acting as both agents and employers of artists, each buying talent from themselves and selling talent to themselves and charging the talent a commission. Last week, in a hasty effort to avoid at least one future headache, CBS sold, subject to ratification, its Columbia Artists. Inc. to Music Corporation of America for a reputed $250,000. NBC was dickering to unload for the reputed same amount its Program Talent Sales and Concerts Division on William Morris Agency, Inc., oldest genius-peddling house...
...what the purchasing agents thought and felt depended to a large extent whether the U.S. would have inflation or avoid it. If they decided that inflation was coming, and began an all-out spending spree, only drastic Government inventory control could keep...
...France's back); the Hoare-Laval deal over Ethiopia (when Britain sabotaged the League of Nations); British hostility to Franco-Russian alliance (when Britain first alienated Russia); British support of Belgium when she broke her British and French alliance (when Britain made it clear that she wanted to avoid war in Europe); British encouragement of the Henlein party in Czecho-Slovakia and of Yugoslavia's rapprochement with Italy and Germany (when Britain helped to break up the Little Entente). These moves were all based on two fundamental misconceptions : 1) Russia was more dangerous than Germany; 2) Hitler could...
...Manila are adequately fortified. Invasion of Japan would not be necessary and the Nipponese Navy, to escape being bombed out of the Inland Sea, would probably have to fight a decisive full-dress battle- which Journalist Hauser, no naval expert, insists high Japanese naval officials would seek to avoid...