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...hearings before the FCC in Washington was a ruling promulgated by the Commission eight weeks ago that had kicked up more fuss than anything in radio since Mae West. In permitting stations to sell advertising time on their short-wave broadcasts to Latin America and other foreign parts, FCC inserted a provision that the programs "shall render only an international broadcast service which will reflect the culture of this country and which will promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." Behind the provision, Washington observers felt, was the State Department's Good-Neighborly tact toward Latin-American autocrats...
...amount of cultural fuss it begets, music is unequalled among the arts. There are in the U. S. no less than 4,900 local music clubs, with a total of 500,000 lady members ready to defend the diatonic scale as they would defend their young. Last week 5,000 of them, smartly dressed and a little less bosomy than D. A. R. ladies, wound up in Baltimore the 21st biennial convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs, moved on to New York City for two days at the World's Fair...
Columbia has a great director in Frank Capra, who will make Mr. Smith Goes To Washington with James Stewart and Jean Arthur. Columbia's fuss-&-feathers for the coming year was a "great director policy," under which Mr. Capra will be abetted by such colleagues as Wesley Ruggles, Frank Lloyd, Howard Hawks, Rouben Mamoulian...
...even the peace-loving Socialists raised any great fuss. And from France, a onetime Premier, Socialist Léon Blum, even spoke sharply against Labor's opposition to such mild conscription. Said he of British Labor's distaste for conscription: "I am myself staggered and I think that French opinion generally is staggered...
Uncle Sam is not the kind That's looking for a fuss; But if they should feel inclined To take a shot at us- Talk about your rallying Should the bugle blow, No delay or dallying, Bang! And off we'd go! We must be ready. It's well to be ready. You never can tell-you never can tell In a fight, what they might prepare to do. They might compel us to yell, "We dare you to." And so we must get busy...