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...last-minute misgiving by the Badoglio Government almost snagged the parleys. The Marshal wanted no announcement of the armistice until after the main Allied landing in Italy. General Eisenhower replied with a 24-hour ultimatum: the Allies must fix the timing of the announcement, or Italy would suffer the full shock of Allied air power. The Marshal bowed. On Sept. 3, while Generals Eisenhower and Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander looked on, the Armistice was signed by U.S. Major General Walter B. Smith for the Allies, by General Castellano for Italy...
Give & Take. Chief difference in the plans lay in the role gold should play. Keynes would relegate it to a secondary role, letting prewar world trade fix the shares (and voting power) of each nation in the bank. Dr. White would base each nation's credit and voting power in the $5,000,000,000 stabilization fund at least partly on the amount of gold that each contributed...
...worst feature was its disjointed Plant No. 2, far enough up Seattle's Duwamish River so that fuselages from the No. 1 plant had to be put on barges to reach final assembly. First, Phil Johnson tackled Boeing's sales problem-to get the money to fix its production mess. He haunted the Allied Purchasing Commission's Washington office, wangled enough orders and cash in advance from the French to revamp Plant No. 2. As the war crescendoed, the U.S. Army poured funds in; the white-elephant plant became a huge, fully integrated, $15,000,000 Flying...
Last week, in a statement studded with commuter-train anti-New Deal invective, Lou Maxon announced his resignation. The professors had been too tough for him. But Congress had already brought about one of his suggested reforms by ruling that no OPAster may help fix prices unless he has had five years' business experience...
...Diddle Diddle (United Artists). Cinemaddicts who may have gambled away $50,000 at cards will learn from this rampageous farce that the way to make good their losses is to fix a roulette wheel and break the bank for $228,000. Luckless loser in Hi Diddle Diddle is birdbrained Mrs. Prescott (Billie Burke) who claims she has disposed of the family fortune just as her daughter Janie (Martha Scott) is about to marry a sailor, Sonny Phyffe (Dennis O'Keefe). Father Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) is the raffish Samaritan deputed to recoup Mrs. Prescott's family fortune by breaking...