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...Moon Is Down (20th Century-Fox) presents the cinema audience with a ready-made controversy. As novel and play, John Steinbeck's fable about a Nazi garrison's nervous breakdown in Norway kicked up a loud literary row. Were Steinbeck's Nazis softer than the real thing...
...management's first open answer. To four Congressional committees G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson sent a blistering 816-word telegram. "The dual allegiance which will arise when foremen are unionized will imperil their ability to fulfill their responsibilities. ... It is easy to visualize the complete breakdown of authority and internal plant discipline...
...told the German people and the world where Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...
...beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground...
...breakdown of the international's expenses listed the number of employes with separate totals for each category (e.g., four officers, $30,250; four publicity workers, $8,854; seven researchers, $11,473). Biggest single expense item, besides the $179,200 "tax" paid to C.I.O., was $70,999 for Steel Labor (U.S.A.'s monthly). Most revealing insight into what it costs to run a bang-up union: $19,478.15 for "buttons, emblems and badges." > A separate table showed the expenses of each of U.S.A.'s 39 districts and four super-district offices. They were broken down into 16 categories...