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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...frequent charge that it has admitted and then mistreated myriads of German and Spanish fugitives, showed that the French have at least done something. The U. S. people up to last week's end had shown no inclination to do anything for the world's refugees except read about them. If the U. S. did want to do something, obvious step would be for Congress to amend the quota law. Obvious amendments would temporarily reduce favored Great Britain's unfilled allotment, write off uninterested Yap, Bhutan etc., up the quotas for Germany, Poland, etc., without necessarily increasing...
...Except for a single bulb burning in a downstairs office, the lights went out in the great white Governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, the night Sam Jones defeated Earl Long in the primary run-off for Louisiana's governorship. Five uniformed officers guarded the grounds, chasing away small boys who tried to plant anti-Long signs in the shrubbery. Outside, the night was clamorous: whistles, bells, automobile horns, the music of six bands rising from a parade two blocks away. Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from...
That afternoon Bigger is hired as chauffeur by Philanthropist Dalton, who makes his money in Negro tenements. It is a good job except for the philanthropist's radical daughter Mary. His first instructions are to drive her that evening to a lecture. She redirects him to a rendezvous with her Communist lover. What follows, as baffled and suspicious Bigger is accepted as a comrade, is one of the most devastating accounts yet printed of that tragicomic, Negrophilous bohemianism which passes among Communists as a solution of the Negro Problem...
English poets have seldom left England -the Christian world's poetical home base-except on scholarly vacations or for their health or reputation's sake. Yet two able-bodied English poets are now more or less permanently quartered as wage earners in the U. S. Louis MacNeice is teaching at Cornell, Wystan Hugh Auden at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. And Auden, probably the most spectacular English poet alive-and one who in 1937 received, at his King's hands, the King's Gold Medal for distinguished literary services...
Professor Whittlesey went on to show the great economic resources of Germany, and the large extent to which those resources are developed. Germany has the vast majority of coal beds of Europe, except for the unexploited region in central Russia, and these coal supplies should last Germany for some time. Her new acquisitions in Czechoslovakia and Poland in addition, should augment her resources considerably...