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That pretty much happened last week to the Malvolio of Arnold Moss which, after a promising start, grew broader at every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great deal of fun, it was perhaps because a forthright Twelfth Night is often little better than a fourth-rate one. The situation calls for magic...
Before a joint committee looking into the whole field of U.S. investments, appeared Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). How did he think U.S. capital could be lured abroad? The net of Oilman Holman's forthright reply was that the real job could not be done by the U.S.; it had to be done by other nations. Before U.S. investors would loosen up, he said, high taxes, foreign currency restrictions and other controls would have to be eased...
Actually, only a few Senators were opposed to the bill itself. Their case was sketchily made by Nevada's George Malone, who waved a Japanese-made Kewpie doll and shouted across an all-but-empty Senate floor: "We are importing unemployment." Ohio's forthright Robert A. Taft got down to fundamentals. "The issue is whether we believe in free trade or we don't," he said bluntly. "I do not believe in free trade. I agree that the whole world would be better off on the average. But the U.S. would be worse off. We would average...
From Cleveland he bustled through three other of Ohio's big industrial counties. In the next 13 weeks he would cover some 84 more, appearing in the Senate only for important votes. The forthright and worried Taft made no secret of the reason for this activity. Confronted with an extraordinarily violent opposition, he faced defeat for reelection...
Essentially, Call It Treason is a forthright story of flight, pursuit and death, of the hunters and the hunted. Of its kind it is a good...