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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Gracting that Mr. James is a clown and comparatively harmless himself, nevertheless he provides a dramatic lesson in the basic techniques of modern dictatorship, and a reminder of the economic sickness of American democracy. It can happen here. Social inequality, economic insecurity--these are the breeding ground of bigger Hitlers than Mr. James. Saddest commentary of all is the perfectly evident fact that one of Mr. Dies' customary floor shows would only serve to inflate such a penny-ante movement as "Yankee-American Action" to grotesque proportions. The body politic, racked with internal disorder, requires as never before a scientific...
...wire of A.T. & T.'s mighty Bell Telephone System. Interlacing this giant nervous system are 6,600 independent companies (lineage : some 9,200,000 miles) serving 18% of the nation's 20,820,000 telephones.* They sprang up around the turn of the century after the basic Bell patents ran out, fought A. T. & T. for breathing space, by 1914 were at peace with their corpulent competitor. Clinging to their often profitable franchises like lichens to a rock, these little fellows annually turn in a $130,000,000 gross...
Farley on Agriculture wanted more "basic research" (i.e., new inventions), to absorb more agricultural workers: "In the decade just preceding the high days of 1929 seventeen million young people between 15 and 30 years of age left the farms and found employment in the towns. But for the past ten years rural population has been damming up in rural districts." He also boosted a basic crop: "We should never forget that rural districts constitute the great breeding ground of America. Yet the farmer today has lost the market for his greatest of all crops -his baby crop...
Without blinking at the immensity of U. S. wealth, the extent of U. S. poverty, FORTUNE makes as strong an affirmative statement with the photographs that illuminate U. S. life. as with the statistics that dramatize U. S. industrial growth, gives figures for future growth to justify the basic optimism that poll takers found when they asked their questions. In no field scrutinized could FORTUNE find that U. S. greatness lay in its past rather than its future, nor could it find one belief, one condition, one policy, the key to U. S. strength. "In spite of all lacks...
...Trumpet" is one of the originals written by Raymond Scott for his quintet of six men. (Incidentally, it will be one of the basic works for a Scott Ballet that the Ballet Theater is going to do on the Coast this summer). This writer has never had too much love for Scott's stuff, feeling that it was over-arranged, and mainly tricks rather than good swing. However, even with this handicap, the six men make the tune sound a thousand times as good as does the Pops Symphony...