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...Organization conference to be held in Montreal in September. Since Sam Gompers helped found the I.L.O. in 1919, the A.F.L. had furnished every delegate to I.L.O. conferences. As soon as he heard of the slight, crusty Bill Green got off a scorching, four-page letter to Harry Truman. Its gist: get rid of Schwellenbach, or else...
Although TIME'S footnotes serve many different functions, our editors have found them an ideal device for disposing of long, dull Government reports, etc. whose gist can be given in a paragraph or two. They work hard at this kind of condensation, but occasionally the subject matter will not condense. Once, for instance, one of our National Affairs writers had to explain the game of poker in a footnote (the subject had come up on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and it was news). On his first try, the footnote turned out to be almost as long...
...Senate last week rose Montana's James E. Murray, wealthy, New Dealing chairman of a special Senate Committee on Small Business. In his hand he had a 359-page report on "Economic Concentration and World War II." Its gist: Big Business, fattened on prime war contracts, was now bigger. He underlined this with a bit of demagogy...
When Yudin speaks, Russia listens. For Moscow University Professor P. F. Yudin is to Soviet dialectics what Eugene Tarle is to Soviet history-the nimble scholar who can trim theory to fit practice. Last week the gist of a talk Yudin gave a group of Moscow intellectuals on April 17 reached the U.S. It was important because it put into clear, connected words a picture of how Russian leaders see their country. Introverts & Extroverts. Yudin gave an exegesis of the revised revelation on one of Marx's key texts: that once the classless society has been achieved, "a special...
Many a priest has posted the weekly Legion of Decency film ratings on his church bulletin board and let it go at that. To help such fathers better guard their flocks, the American Ecclesiastical Review recently devoted a lead article to an explanation of Catholic moviegoing policy. Gist: when you don't know...