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...locked up in foreign ports, unless they expect that war is close at hand. In Washington the rumor was rife that the Axis was preparing to declare war on the U. S. Yet to many Americans the news of sabotage and seizure seemed not to come as a great shock, or as a fearsome step toward war, but with the feeling "It's about time...
Last week these facts, showing how the natural barbarism of children protects them from shock of war's gruesomeness, were reported by the Chicago Daily News's Foreign Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer to 300 worried educators, social workers and parents at a Midwest conference on "Tomorrow's Children" in Chicago. The conferees had met to consider what, if anything, might be done to protect today's and tomorrow's children from the tension and insecurity of war. Although his observations had shown children standing up to the war remarkably well, Mr. Mowrer urged: Let parents...
...chance, announced the resignation of Kommissar Walter. To replace the State syndicates, the producers formed the Reich Coal Association, modeled it along cartel lines, chose as its head Paul Pleiger, a businessman who is also general manager of the Hermann Goring Works. His first move was to create "coal shock reserves" strategically scattered throughout the Greater Reich, and intended to prevent shortages in case of "railroad congestion" (i.e., R.A.F. bombing). The Volkischer Beo-bachter gave Herr Pleiger its official Party blessing, called the new coal setup "an extension of initiative," declaimed: "The [German] entrepreneur today, in contrast to the time...
...Trustee Wardall had no sinecure. It was his job not only to run the shock-rocked company, and to plan a new capital structure, but also to recover any assets he could. Most of the directors from whom a lawsuit (for negligence) might shake important money, were the former owners of the local wholesale houses, who had become vital cogs in the management wheel. If, in bargaining with these directors for a settlement, he got too tough, they might well have got tough in return by suing to get their companies back or leaving McKesson and taking their local customers...
...anyone who left Gone With the Wind believing that Vivien Leigh was an accomplished actress, That Hamilton Woman will come as a nasty shock. While undemonstrative Husband Olivier mumbles his lines in his gullet or grimaces slightly to keep pace with his blind eye and scarred forehead. Miss Leigh changes the key completely by winking, pouting and fanning the air like a signalman. Her dramatic progress has left her only a gender's distance from Mickey Rooney. The picture provides the sort of lethargic Mother Goose history which does not make movies, just monumental boredom...