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...Cassandras could cite unpleasant facts. Coal production was 80% of the prewar level, iron & steel barely 87% of 1938 and only 65% of 1929. Exports last year totaled only 29,635,000,000 francs, while imports reached a whopping 52,690,000,000 francs...
...British Case. Britons are increasingly restive and resentful over their dependence on the U.S. They don't like being tied by the U.S. loan and other strings to what they consider the boom-or-bust economy on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. They cite the end of price controls and the near-disastrous coal strike as examples of U.S. irresponsibility. This resentment is aggravated by what the British see as a U.S. effort to put on them all the blame for policies which seek a joint U.S.-British objective...
...sensational, do not involve dangerous violations of civil rights. The real danger lies in the ability of one man to create, dominate and pervert a Congressional Committee the way john Rankin has. When a Congressman can subpoena an American for taking a vocal role in an election campaign, can cite this same man for contempt and force him to waste his and the government's time with a costly contempt suit, and can deprive the witness of counsel in the manner of the better Inquisitors, it is time Americans look closely to discover where the shoe fits...
Howard also claims that the Harvard band was the first college band to start forming letters on the playing field, and, after that dodge caught on, that it was the first to put punctuation marks into its half-time efforts. Although he didn't cite the date, Howard also claimed that the Harvard band has played, according to no less an authority than Bill Cunningham, the most inspiring music ever to be played on a football field...
...film is untypical of Chandler in that it has a formula happy ending, but even this does not take the edge off of several very swell performances, particularly by the minor players. To cite chapter and verse, Howard Da Silva as the night club operator, and Will Wright as the house detective, do exceptionally sensitive jobs in roles that could easily have been stereotypes...