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Immediate victims of this double coup de grâce were 1) some 450,000 auto workers, laid off; 2) 44,000 auto dealers (many of them civic leaders in their communities) and their 400,000 employes. In the dealers' holiday-decorated show rooms last week was the stillness of death. On Manhattan's famed automobile row new-car salesmen were thrown out like last year's license plates; in the huge show places of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, glistening cars mocked the vacant desks, the muffled telephones. Detroit's 300 dealers fired most...
...tender, blazing under repeated attacks, downed a Japanese plane on her own decks. Simultaneously her captain spotted a midget submarine's shadow within yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...
...sooner were their resignations announced last week than Dr. Morely confirmed the appointment of their successors. To replace Ce. Hoston: Dr. Ralph Sargent of Knox College, Illinois. To replace Dr. Reitzel: 25-year-old William Howard Taft, son of Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, grandson of the late President of the United States...
Nostalgic reminiscences on the pre-1929 era of decadence, short skirts, and "tout ce qu'il-y-a plus chic" partake of one of the strongest traditions on the Advocate, of which Marvin Barrett's "The Party" in the previous issue was a continuation. In this vein is "The Year the Rain Came to Deauville" by Curtis Thomas, a narrative-essay on the super-sophisticated international set which located its feverish merriments at the resort towns of France. The sub-title is "Or Why France Fell," and an Editor's Note gives a sociological twist probably not intended...
...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...