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...strikers left. Conductor Koussevitzky managed to rebuild the orchestra to the highest level. Two years ago Boss Petrillo barred the Bostonians from radio and recording studios under a threat to pull all union musicians out of the studios. Like most U.S. symphony orchestras, the Bostonians had come to depend less and less on wealthy patronage, more and more on broadcasting and recording fees. After two years off the air, the Symphony's trustees threw in the sponge, signed a union contract. Petrillo had won again...
Future peace, Niebuhr said, would depend upon the co-operation of intergovernmental groups, where labor and agricultural elements in one nation would join with those of other countries in a common objective...
...Tonight," is one of the most successful documentaries to develop from the Allied war effort. It's plot reaches the peak of realism, consisting entirely of an actual raid on an occupied port. The characters play their roles efficiently and quictly, as well they must, for their lives depend on it. The film is the best of all possible propaganda, actual truth...
...impossible to depend on the loyalty of Admiral Darlan in the present situation, but he must be retained in a responsible position so long as the course of military events warrants it. Once the Allies have taken complete and absolute control of North Africa, his term of usefulness is at an end, and he must be discarded in favor of a government acceptable both to the Allies and to the people of France. The State Department disregarded the feelings of the peoples of the United Nations by maintaining relations with Vichy, but it has since become evident that...
There is no Dreiser or Sinclair Lewis in the book; but Dreiser's effects depend on cumulative mass, and Lewis' great talents were not for creative but for reportorial writing. Unfortunately, there is no Scott Fitzgerald, either. The editors also went wrong on Thurber and Willa Gather, who deserved better selections. Southern writers are perhaps too generously treated. With these flaws, it remains a solid anthology. Among the selections...