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...shares of Ebasco stock, was about to lose everything because "the management had tried to sell the company down the river by playing into the hands of the SEC." Up went shouts: "Fight the SEC!" "Save our company!" A peacemaker tried to smooth things over, got so wrought up himself that he threatened to throw Okin out of the room. An aged shareholder yelped that he had paid $4,000 for stock now worth only $12.50. He shook his fist right under President Murphy's twitching nose, demanded: "How do I get my money back...
...most striking evidence of the still incomplete social revolution wrought by World War II can be found in the new occupations of American women...
...readings) with a new announcer, Scottish-burred Bill Hay, announcer for 16 years of the Amos 'n' Andy program. When Announcer Hay finished his first reading, the story of the Creation, listeners heard a genteel plug for his sponsor, Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial-Park: its wrought-iron gates are bigger than those of Buckingham Palace...
There can be nothing but praise for the directors of this picture. When human tragedy and the profound transformation of total war which is wrought upon an entire nation can be interpreted so accurately and humanly as in "Mrs. Miniver," moviedom can well afford to pat itself on the back...
...Forthright Elmer Davis knows what confusion has thus far been wrought in World War II. Said he, in a March broadcast: "The whole Government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen different agencies following different lines. . . . Under one head, with real power, they might get somewhere. . . . Objection has been made that it might be hard to pick the man to head them. But almost anybody would be better than half a dozen heads...