Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This does not seem to bother individual ASCAP members, but last week, in the midst of ASCAP's squabble to get more money out of the radio chains, the Department of Justice began to close in on the society. Under way in Washington were negotiations for a consent decree by which ASCAP would forsake its blanket agreements. Since these blanket agreements have been a major factor in the networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued...
From the first, the railroads insisted they could handle any traffic load the defense boom might produce. When Burlington's Ralph Budd joined the Defense Advisory Commission, he did not seem worried either. In July, when traffic had risen to over 700,000 carloadings a week. Commissioner Budd urged the roads to fix up their bad-order cars, keep them below 6%. The Administration wanted him to force orders for 100,000 new cars at once, 500,000 by 1942. Mr. Budd preferred not to interfere with rail managements...
...fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest, and his multifarious nephews...
Nazis v. Nazarenes. As exiled Nobel Prizeman Thomas Mann said last week: "There can be no real peace between the cross and the swastika. National socialism is essentially unchristian and antichristian. . . ." Though the conflict between Christianity and Naziism seems inevitable now, it did not seem so when Hitler came into power. Catholics and Protestants alike helped his coup d'état. Martin Niemoller himself supported him. And one of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor was to declare: "In the two Christian creeds lie the most important factors for the preservation of the German people." Only in secret...
...said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...