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...censor his column. When a G. O. P. authority mentioned Lawrence's name among a list of prominent syndicated writers, Charlie Michelson, Democratic hero of the 1932 "smear Hoover" campaign, immediately dubbed him a Republican hireling, and hence unworthy to interpret the news. Resenting Administrative hostility and scenting a plot to strangle independent newsmen, Lawrence has raised a long and justifiable howl...
...action seems to center about the infant Peter and since the management has requested that the child's secret be kept from an eager public it is rather difficult to say much about the plot. Finessing the harrowing details this column will consider its duty done when it announces that the story is long in telling, poorly paced and so skillfully constructed that the climax comes at the end of the first act, thus making the ensuing two acts dependent upon the customary dramatic devices such as inexplicable flashes of lightning and a series of unexpected entrances. The most interesting...
...what was behind these labor disorders, opinions ranged from the Communist Daily Worker's charge that it was a monstrous conspiracy of Federal officials and shipowners to crush maritime labor, to the Hearstpaper belief that a great Communist plot was on foot to destroy the U. S. merchant marine. The Roosevelt Cabinet found itself seriously divided in dealing with breaches of marine discipline. When striking seamen tied up the Panama Pacific Line's S. S. California for four days in San Pedro last month (TIME, March 16), Secretary of Commerce Roper talked boldly about having the ringleaders prosecuted...
...plot of this play, which is Mr. Hodge's first published work, deals with undergraduate life in the Edinburgh Medical School. Opening in London in October, 1933, at St. Martin's Theatre, the play has played well over 1000 performances...
...their first night in it, Leroy leaves their studio to deliver his dangerous package. Why he never gets to his destination, what becomes of him and Cassie, just how sinister MM. de la Penthièvre and Penkethman really are, and how plausible is Author Ford's portentous plot may be left to the panting reader...