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...innermost circles of Britain and Germany to weigh correctly their respective merit. But we think that the logic of Dr. Holmes is as solid as granite, and that opposing set of arguments contains possible weaknesses. Hitler, for example, is an imponderable; his reaction to, and behavior after, a peace settlement, cannot be safely predicted. British resolution to pursue the war to an idealistic conclusion may be suspect, propaganda notwithstanding. If there is a chance for peace, it is to the selfish interest of the United States to capitalize upon it; and for this reason, if for none other...
...bouncing, fiery Heitor Villa-Lobos. When he was six years old his lawyer father, an amateur musician, taught him how to play a lick or two on the cello. He taught himself how to play the piano. By the time he was 19 he was roving from one Brazilian settlement to another, playing in half-caste cabarets and straw-thatched cinema palaces. And he listened long and often to the jungly songs of Brazil's Indians, the hot, oozing rhythms of Brazil's primitive Negroes. With these in his inner ear, he started to write music-unorthodox...
...started the whole futile mess by demanding that only C.I.O. clerks be hired. In a note to their editor, reporters and copy boys on the San Francisco News voiced the general sentiment of San Francisco: "PLEASE, BOSS, LET'S NOT HAVE ANOTHER STRIKE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME." Settlement of the strike gave C.I.O.'s mighty little Longshoreman Harry Bridges the first real setback he has had since he rose to power with the San Francisco general strike...
...Utilities Co. (Nypan), is trying to borrow money so that Associated can pay off an $8,589,-980 (8%) bond issue which is due March 15, 1940. Also overdue is $5,780,000 owed the U. S. Treasury by Associated as the balance of an $8,700,000 settlement of a $50,000,000 tax claim. Mange wants RFC to lend NY PA NJ enough to pay off the bonds, pay the taxes; he is also asking for another lump for construction, $26,500,000 in all. The catch is that SEC must approve NY PA NJ's passing...
Last week Tabouis, out on a limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...