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Paragons, Legrees Sirs: As a member of Associated Farmers I protest the write-up in your issue...
Monster Grunts. Soviet Russia, vapid monster in the East, emitted troubled grunts but nothing more. Four times her minister in Bucharest called at the Foreign Office to protest. First against the "atti tude, of the Rumanian press," then the "campaign labeling all Rumanian criminals as Communists," then the "general unfriendly Rumanian attitude." On his fourth visit he demanded that impotent Rumania explain the presence of the in creasing Nazi hordes and give an immediate answer to his other protests. Reports that 30 crack Soviet divisions had ar rived in Bessarabia to counter Hitler's Army, and that the region...
Tired of being the whipping boy of a lagging national defense program, last week labor rose to protest. Cried President William Green, the A. F. of L. stood "four square in support of the national defense program. We commit ourselves to avoid strikes. . . . We are ready to make any reasonable and necessary sacrifices...
...separately." Evidence that that unity was lacking had cropped up with increasing frequency in recent weeks. It was plain in the strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy building program. It was plain in the demand of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman...
Because blonde Gerta Rozan's first good film part was eliminated in the cutting room, Austrian Actress Rozan confused Universal City traffic by patrolling the studio pavement in a strip-picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...