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After service in the War of 1812, the chaplains Corps was abolished temporarily, but in 1938 it was re-established. The new bill widened the scope of the clergymen's duties, for each chaplain was then required, in addition to his spiritual services, to act as a pedagogue for the officers' and enlisted men's children...
...many a community P.A.C. has received help from the A.F. of L.-although Bill Green sneers at P.A.C.-and the Railroad Brotherhoods. Last week P.A.C. further broadened its scope by setting up a National Citizens Political Action Committee, studded with the names of radicals, movie stars, authors and liberals of all shades that ranged from George Norris to Paul Robeson.* Partly the reason for this was to get around the Smith-Connally Act by having the new committee collect and disburse contributions. Partly the reason was that shrewd Sidney Hillman, looking ahead, wants to get a broader base...
Last week Thomas Mann published the final volume of his major work. Few novelists in the history of literature have planned a work of such scope and significance, and made their plans come true...
After the scope of the project had sunk in, Pogue announced the really big news. He indicated that this was no phony warmup; this was the takeoff. He wanted to wait no longer for the U.S. to get its props into the postwar air. In short, he would open pre-hearing conferences, at which the applicants could show why they should get the best routes-within three weeks...
...play had something, too. Anything but a good play, fissured with faults, encrusted with crudities, it was yet vivid theater. It had also, along with the sprawl, some of the scope of a novel. Its characters did too much and sometimes talked too fancily, but-escaping the prison of a rigid stage technique-they had an absurd, audacious vitality. Best of all, perhaps, Playwright Yordan cared about his people, and in his fumbling way saw life a little as greater writers have seen it-not just as a problem or struggle, but as a changing and clouded dream...