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...great segment of the U. S., all this to-do undoubtedly seemed as unnecessary and embarrassing as French generals kissing. Many U. S. citizens, perhaps more than belong to any other group, are of a kind whom everyone has encountered: they do not protest their faith in democracy; they take it for granted. They vote, pay taxes and, if need be, march. For a week or two before elections they may get politically het up. But after an election is past, they quickly return to their normal attitude, which is both affectionate and aloof. Sure, they are for the President...
...Washington, Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, author of the bill setting up the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority, raised his voice. Less than five months ago Franklin D. Roosevelt by executive order reorganized CAA, made it a board under the Department of Commerce. The change was made over the protest of airlines and pilots, who had found CAA's administration stern but effective, feared a change might wreck a great safety record. Last week Pat McCarran announced that he would begin a fight in January to make CAA independent again. Said he: "There is no branch of the Government...
...night last week dozens of British warplanes droned over Switzerland on their way to bomb northern Italy. Antiaircraft batteries opened fire and the Swiss High Command claimed to have dispersed one squadron. Next day the Government made a second energetic, but futile, protest to London. The High Command took more effective action, ordered the entire country blacked out from 10 o'clock every night until dawn. The Swiss explained that instead of compelling respect for their neutrality, normal lighting had guided pilots on their...
Angels Over Broadway (Columbia). In spite of the fabulous salary he draws as a screen writer (some $6,000 weekly) balding Ben Hecht spends many of his expensive words on acid comments about Hollywood moviemakers. Possibly as protest, he and his sidekick, Playwright Charles MacArthur, took four flings at independent movie production, scored one bull's-eye with The Scoundrel, eventually quit. This year, Columbia gave Hecht $260,000 worth of Hollywood backing with which he wrote, produced, directed Angels Over Broadway, another of his preoccupations with the regeneration of moral strays who have felt the cooling shadow...
...same time the Student Union, the Liberal Union, and Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, issued statements condemning the exclusion of the Communist candidates from the ballot in New York, and Harvard Teachers' Union Civil Liberties Committee released a protest letter which it has sent to President Roosevelt and Attorney General Jackson...