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Tired of being the whipping boy of a lagging national defense program, last week labor rose to protest. Cried President William Green, the A. F. of L. stood "four square in support of the national defense program. We commit ourselves to avoid strikes. . . . We are ready to make any reasonable and necessary sacrifices...
...polite terms. Last week it changed its tactics, decided to see whether a threat would work. A Foreign Office spokesman warned: "The entire attention of the German Government is centred upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal. That proposal is nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act. I speak with tremendous earnestness...
Ever since Zola, writers have tried to commit to paper the daily living of average families. "Naturalism" had a notion that an account of how such a family struggles through its oatmeal, breeds another generation to do likewise, could present all human life fearlessly and whole. The result of this literary theory has been some good amateur anthropology, a titanic amount of dullness, little...
...have felt the cooling shadow of death. The three strays are a tippling, has-been playwright (Thomas Mitchell), a dapper drugstore cowboy (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), a lady of the evening (Rita Hayworth). In a Broadway honky-tonk they tie up with a small-time larcenist (John Qualen) about to commit suicide rather than face punishment for filching $3,000 to pamper his faithless wife. Before the evening is over they unite to win Qualen another $3,000, get themselves into some tense brushes with gamblers...
...year Mein Kampf was published (1925) he began "his desperate, singlehanded, 14-year struggle for England's soul and power of vision" by writing three little-known essays. In Shall We All Commit Suicide? he warned that in Germany "science [had gone] mad in the hands of demon-ridden masses." In Mass Effects in Modern Life he warned that mass production found its political form in the Bolshevik state. In Fifty Years Hence Churchill forecast the rise of fascist states whose power would far exceed the intelligence of their rulers, whose intelligence would far exceed their morals...