Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Francisco closed for 54 days. Exporters, importers, custom brokers, shipping lines picked up business where they dropped it last Nov. 10. Back to work went longshoremen, teamsters, the 1,300 waterfront clerks whose union started the whole futile mess by demanding that only C.I.O. clerks be hired. In a note to their editor, reporters and copy boys on the San Francisco News voiced the general sentiment of San Francisco: "PLEASE, BOSS, LET'S NOT HAVE ANOTHER STRIKE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME." Settlement of the strike gave C.I.O.'s mighty little Longshoreman Harry Bridges the first real setback...
...pastoral letter: "Why not indicate here that in Nationalist Spain there has not taken place the moral and religious reaction which was hoped for from the nature of the movement and the great trial to which we were subjected by the justice of God? It is painful to note that the fulfillment of the holy commandments of the Law of God and of the Church is not what was to be expected after receiving such a tremendous lesson. There are parishes where hardly 5% of the men and no more than 20% of the women go to Mass...
Last month the London Tablet, a reputable Catholic weekly, took guarded note of the matter by printing the Toledo paper's final, politely Spanish word on it: "We may . . . recall . . . the deeply patriotic record of our Eminent Cardinal. . . . This regrettable incident will in no way relax his activities and his love for Spain. . . . Personally His Eminence prefers to overlook, forgive and forget everything...
...succession of swift, spare, terse scenes he succeeds in making Steinbeck's subhuman characters human, cleverly drowns out the false note of sentimentality in George and Lennie's relation by keeping it focussed on action rather than feeling, forcing the tension. From the opening shot (before the title flashes) of George and Lennie escaping their pursuers by jumping a freight, until George shoots Lennie through the head to save him from a posse, there is scarcely a word, gesture or incident too much. More tender than the tough stage version, the impact of the picture is tough...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...