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...Benet, planning, doubtless, to put poetry into the movies, and so on and so on. Of the speeches I heard I liked best the statement of Archbishop Hayes, read by Father Kelly of the Catholic Writers' Guild. Here, too, was Elmer Rice, author of The Adding Machine. I understand that he is to frame the statement on book censorship from the radical standpoint for the Author's League, while George Barr Baker will draft one on the conservative side. In my humble opinion, political censorship of books is inevitable, though tragic. It is inevitable because of the attitude...
This practice with regard to "margin" stock is unavoidable and is in every way legal and legitimate. But owing to the fact that most brokerage customers do not fully understand the business, it permits unprincipled brokers to sell out their customers' stock as fast as it is purchased&−which is "bucketing." If the customer asks where his stock is, he is told that it is at a bank in a "loan envelope," and he has to take the broker's word for it. The "bucketing" broker profits from this illegal and underhanded practice in two ways...
...There was once an American in Fans who wanted to see a good show. Not the Comedie Francaise, you understand, but one of those typically Parisian shows that has made Montmartre a symbol for sinful frivolity in New York, Junction City and Pleasantville. So he told the hotel porter and the porter got him a ticket for a real good show at a theatre possibly named the Vaudeville. "Ah," thought the American, practicing a wicked wink. Now ] 11 see some snappy stuff! " He went?and discovered himself viewing a gay little piece entitled Pasteur, a review of that scientist...
...been said by critics of the American Federation of Labor that it holds aloof from politics and that this is a serious mistake. Those who have taken occasion to observe the facts understand the truth, which is that American labor is decidedly active in politics, that it has been a tremendous force in American political life but that it refrains from forming partisan political affiliations...
...made up of members of seven different unions and it is expected that these and the graduates in years to come will rise to leadership in their unions. Thus will the college furnish forth the ranks of labor with leaders who know the history of the movement and who understand its problems...