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...midtown Manhattan last week, 15 pickets walked round & round before the building that houses the New Republic. Their banners bore an almost forgotten legend: I.W.W. Most New Yorkers, if they remembered the Industrial Workers of the World at all, thought that it had long ago gone down history's drain. As a labor union and a militant revolutionary movement, it was all but dead (TIME, April...
Robbed: Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough of Baltimore. Out of his house vanished some $1,250 worth of silverware which had belonged to the late James Cardinal Gibbons and bore the Cardinal's coat of arms and initials. Presently police found the swag in a bushel basket in a church, and a chauffeur pleaded guilty...
...mural behind him depicting Simón Bolívar's inaugural in 1821 as Colombia's President, George Marshall recalled that Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had died leading U.S. troops on Okinawa in World War II. That Buckner, who gave his life, bore "the name of your great Liberator," he said, "certainly indicates something of our common purpose and our common bond...
...quiet announcement from the National Military Establishment Munitions Board last week gave U.S. industry a minor shock. Said Board Chairman*Thomas J. Hargrave, president of Eastman Kodak Co.: the first steps toward industrial mobilization of U.S. plants for war have been taken. The new program bore the jawbreaking name of "Allocation of Private Industrial Capacity for Procurement Planning of the Armed Services"-or APICPPAS, for short...
...sort of way, it is fun. Much of the laborious cuteness, questionable bit by bit, is so wildly preposterous that the total effect is cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor and patience behind the entire effort appalls the imagination, let alone the intelligence...