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...removed from the Republican National Committee (which nevertheless financed his work). The New York World sent an investigator to Colonel Mann's office to ask for "nonpolitical literature" on Candidate Smith. She was directed, she said, to the office of the scurrilous Ku Klux Klan sheet, The Fellowship Forum ("Roman Catholic Clerical Party Opens Big Drive to Capture America for the Pope"). This Colonel Mann denied, crying, "Who arranged this frame-up?" Nevertheless, Roman Catholics continued to regard him as responsible for much of the bigotry propaganda sent...
With Oxford's Union-traditional debating forum of future British statesmen -thus on record by an overwhelming pacifist majority, members of the more obscure Manchester University Union bestirred themselves. Next evening they voted 371 to 196 that This house will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country. During the Oxford vote stink bombs were thrown, but proceedings at Manchester were strictly decorous...
...Leopold Stokowski, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Norman Bel Geddes, Nelson Rockefeller. Organized not for profit but for "the study, research and development of film art." the Society initiated a trend which is the cinema equivalent of the Little Theatre movement. Already it has a lusty rival: the Film Forum, headed by Playwright Sidney Howard, which last fortnight gave as its first presentation the German picture M, directed by Fritz Lang. Vaguely pinkish in political tone, the Film Forum hopes to use a profit from its admission rate of $5 for six pictures, for producing "documentary" films...
...past year saw the end of worthy old World's Work, the birth of an equally serious effort called Economic Forum. Outlook lapsed into coma from which it emerged New Outlook. Police Gazette ended a long senility spent in contemplation of a bawdy prime. In its place sprouted a crop of nasty weeds like Calgary Eye-Opener, published by the ex-wife of Capt. Billy Fawcett. Out went innumerable local sheets like Manhattan's Metropolitan Home Journal. In came innumerable others like William H. Hanna's respectable Minneapolis Opinion, scandal-mongering Detroit Merry Go Round and Hollywood...
Succumbing again to the persistent offensive drive of the scarlet clad skaters, the Varsity hockey team went down to defeat, 5-2, in the Montreal Forum on Friday, Dec. 23, at the hands of the McGill University sextet, in the single vacation encounter...