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...their Government securities that FRB was forced to buy up $1,422,000,000, the greatest amount ever bought in one week. Part of the selling was caused by the banks' need for more cash reserves, because of FRB's tightening up reserve requirements (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), but there was enough other selling to rouse bankers into the hottest fiscal argument of the year on the pegging policy...
...days later, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky strode to the rostrum. In his best prosecutor's fashion, he once more listed U.S. citizens whom he considered warmongers (Secretary James Forrestal, Senator Styles Bridges, et al). Vishinsky proposed an international control body under the Security Council (where Russia has a veto) to supervise a general 33⅓% armament reduction. He also repeated Russia's demand for the immediate outlawing of the atomic bomb. That was the old story -Russia wants the U.S. to destroy its bombs but at the same time Russia refuses to accept an international control...
...Largo. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...Prudential's Family Hour abandons the music field, promises 30 minutes of drama with Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, et...
...worth their keep, to Showman Billy, were any of the Met's 38 directors: "Letting Belmont, Bliss, Colt, Dillon, Reed, Whitney, Winthrop et al. boss our most complicated entertainment venture is as daffy as letting Harpo Marx run U.S. Steel. In the old days . . . Otto Kahn and his contemporaries . . . were willing to pay for the privilege of making the Met their hobby . . . But today's directors have shown little facility with the fountain pen . . . they (should) hold one last meeting and fire themselves...