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...Post had come to the same conclusion as many a Republican, Democratic and independent newspaper in the U.S. But it had gotten there by a slow-freight route that was uniquely...
Like earlier witnesses, Dmytryk was sure that the party backers had never really gotten within shooting distance of their main goal. They managed to get enough card carriers on the board of the Screen Writers' Guild to control it for a time, and they set off the studio strike of 1945. But no Red ever got on the board of the Screen Directors' Guild (he was one who tried). Said Dmytryk: "There was never effective control over a major studio executive or at any time effective control over the content of films...
...speaking his convictions, and they were tailored to no political wind. His charge that the J.C.S. approved many of his views embarrassed Democrats, as did his insistence that Formosa was vital to U.S. defense. They squirmed as he declared that he had asked for new diplomatic decisions and gotten none, and when he said: "Why, my soldiers asked of me, surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field? I could not answer." Neither could the Democrats...
...that he was also busy firing MacArthur-Harry Truman was right back on Tobey's wire. He, like some Capitol Hill reporters, had heard that Tobey was talking impeachment over the RFC affair. No, said Tobey, he had intended "nothing of the sort." Replied Truman: "I've gotten that information from a source in whom I have the most complete confidence . . . Now let me tell you this, Senator. If you want to have me impeached you just go right ahead and I'll help you." Then he slammed the telephone on the hook...
...first rate cut in radio network history. The reason, CBS President Frank Stanton explained, was that television has cut CBS's evening radio audience by 10% since last year, and advertisers have been on "a buyer's strike" against radio. Said he: "We have gotten only one legitimate piece of new radio business since July...