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Hell immediately popped around Mr. Cudahy. The British and U. S. press, the American Legion in the U. S., resented his comparison of U. S. and Nazi soldiers. Britons steamed at his remarks about the Belgian surrender. But what mostly got up Washington's and London's ire was John Cudahy's implicit plea to Great Britain to weaken its blockade, to the U. S. to press the British to do so. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles had Washington correspondents in for a press conference, tucked in his chin, lit into his old friend John Cudahy...
...roique, Daybreak, perhaps the last major product of a cinema industry that was as long on brains as it was short on budget, is a worthy swan song. It has the same distinguishing Gallic qualities of artistic shrewdness and spiritual disenchantment that make most Hollywood pictures by comparison seem, for better or for worse, not quite grownup...
...poll findings made a deeper impression in Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie's opportunities to make mistakes in the campaign all lie ahead, while Roosevelt has had seven years in which, perhaps, to have made all the political...
...start fires. But the impression was that last week's German raids were chiefly to familiarize squadron leaders with the course and to test Britain's defenses. When unrestricted air bombing begins, with destruction raining down by hundreds of tons, last week's raids by comparison will seem like flea bites...
...proposals of recent years (often sponsored by the American Legion) that have sought to tax all war profits up to 95%. Mild, as war-profits taxes go, La Follette 's was nevertheless inequitable. Reason: corporations that have recently earned a high rate of return would be penalized in comparison with those that have been running at or near a deficit. For the latter (railroads, etc.) could ride the boom a long time (with a leverage quotient seductive to investors) before reaching the onerous tax brackets. The more efficient a corporation has been, the more its capital consists of brains...