Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week Jimmy Petrillo had what he calls fun. He required the local managers of George White's Scandals and of the Kaufman-Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner to drop references to John Lewis, announced that any mention of C. I. O. and its boss will be forbidden hereafter on Chicago stages. When Chicago newspapers fumed about Tsar Petrillo in a censor's role, Jimmy announced for local consumption that he was just joking. Impresario White took him at his word, at week's end put John L. Lewis back in the Scandals, waited...
...Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins again exercised her genius for aggravating U. S. Laborites. Her annual report to Congress so graveled A. F. of L. President William Green that he cried: "We hope an appropriate Congressional Committee will summon the Secretary of Labor . . . and wring from her the truth she has suppressed...
Same day in London the Laborite Dally Herald had No. 2 Nazi Göring in disgrace and on the skids: "For more than eight weeks Hitler and Göring have not ex changed more than a few words. . . . The last time Göring visited Hitler's Chancel lery at Berlin was Nov. 24. ... Neutral diplomats who prefer to see Goring rather than Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop must travel to Schoríheide [Göring's hunting chalet]. They have brought back reports of angry outbursts by Göring against Hitler...
...interests of something much more prosaic, Franklin Roosevelt last week gave the nod to faithful Mr. Edison. Democratic politicos in New Jersey (including, of all people, Jersey City Boss Frank Hague) have put New Dealish Charlie Edison up for Governor. Lately they have told the President in no uncertain terms that as a candidate next fall Mr. Edison would be sadly handicapped if he were passed over in his own department. The President heeded, last week announced that the son of late, great Thomas Alva Edison will be the 45th Secretary of the Navy. The wise in Washington...
Thus cabled the New York Times's able Otto D. Tolischus from Berlin last week in a year-end review of Reich economics...