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...defense industries, was involved in the great majority of strikes. C. I. 0. President Philip Murray has declared : "Labor is ... just as loyal to the cause of America ... as any group in the country." Murray hates Communism with a deep hate. Nevertheless, as nobody can deny, a thin Red thread runs through C. I. 0. It is thin but tough, and Murray has been unable to get rid of it. It has tangled in many a situation, confused many an issue...
...reconstruction of the entire U. ,S. economy. He could see this clearly because he knew what would happen to U. S. business when 5,000,000 more pairs of shoes a year were suddenly ordered-he could see the hundreds of factories, the machine-tool plants, the nails, thread, leather, the railroad carloads of materials. He multiplied shoes by the 18,000-odd separate items he must buy for defense, from guns to butter, and got one sure answer: a revitalization of U. S. industry and therefore...
...suit against ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers). Bogged down until last December, the case warmed up when trust-busting Thurman Arnold turned it over to plump, blond Victor Waters, his able assistant. Since then the Department has been busy bolstering its contention that ASCAP is a monopoly. Thread of the Government argument: Since ASCAP insists that clients contract for all ASCAP tunes or none, any individual composer who is a member of ASCAP is deprived of potential profits when ASCAP terms are refused. "The profit from a song," says the Department, "belongs to the individual composer...
...were later extended hastily down the Al banian. But in General Papagos' head rests knowledge of every gully and goat track not only in the Greek mountains but far beyond. Like his soldiers, whom amazed correspondents found toiling with out lanterns at midnight to repair bridges, he can thread the Balkans blindfolded...
Chaplin's previous hits have been pearls of assorted humor strung on a thread of personality-the personality of an ineffectual, half pathetic, half grotesque, wholly sympathetic little comedian. The Great Dictator has enough pearls but no thread...