Hollywood Morals and Money in the Movie Trade
George E. Sokolsky argues Hollywood’s quiet, clean image hides industry gossip and a pursuit of sex to boost box office. He notes many actors maintain long marriages, defends clean classics like Ben Hur and Joan of Arc, and says documentaries rarely earn money while entertainment remains the public aim.
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America
Mary Pickford
Shirley Temple
Irene Dunne
Ben Hur
Joan of Arc
OWI
Sam Goldwyn
Western Union
King Features Syndicate
The American Fear of Making Decisions
In this reflection Hal Boyle laments the reluctance to decide in modern America. He contrasts now and then, notes people wait for events to force choices, and cites passing the buck from generals to privates as a symbol of indecision.
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Cassino
When this is all over I will decide each day
Hal Boyle riffs on executive decisiveness with jokes about hunting or fishing and a tongue in cheek lesson on indecision. He cites a wartime Minnesota bumper and a Chinese friend Wong Tu to argue that presidents and executives overthink choices. The piece ends with a playful self mockery about indecision.
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Minnesota
Lynchings and terror as political tools in unions and Klan
Westbrook Pegler argues that Truman and the labor movement defend lynching as political power. He compares CIO violence to the Ku Klux Klan, accusing unions of masking terror and demanding anti lynching laws while exempting non union lynching. He urges readers to study 1936 1937 newspaper files for context.
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Truman
Junioneers
Weststook Ped
Roosevelt
Congress
Department of Justice
Ku Klux Klan
C.i.c
Murray
Klan
C.I.O
Democratic Party
Sidney Hillman
C.1.0
Harry S. Truman
C.I.0
King Features Syndicate
Odd and Interesting Notes by W. L. Gordon
The six fundamental U S Constitution principles are listed with emphasis on representative government dual government and checks and balances. A baseball travels 60 feet 6 inches to home plate in about two fifths of a second. During the flood of 1937 Kentucky received more than 45 billion tons of water in January.
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U. S
Senate
Kentucky
Furnace Fire Fatal in Sharon Area
Mrs Gertrude McKelvey of Brookfield Ohio died in a local hospital from burns after attempting to start a furnace fire with kerosene oil. She was the mother of six.
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Sharon
Gertrude McKelvey
Brookfield, O
Reds Say Art and Politics Mix
Moscow radio criticizes Soviet artists and critics who push art free of communist philosophy. It quotes New Times asserting art should engage public and social problems. The piece labels dissent as bourgeois cosmopolitans and links lack of political content to Western imperialism.
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London
Moscow Radio
New Times
Nazi Diplomat Expects To Resume His Career
Hans Thomsen, Nazi Germany's last charge d'affaires in Washington, said in Frankfurt that he and other veteran Hitler diplomats expect to resume their careers in the new Germany. He now works in banking in Hamburg and noted the Wilhelmstrasse men remain essential.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Hans Thomsen
Nazi Germany
Washington
Hitler
Wilhelmstrasse
Thomsen
Hamburg
German diplomats seek revival of foreign office
German sources say veteran diplomats who evaded the foreign service before Hitler’s rise are aiming to return. They reportedly are covertly recruiting a skeleton group to rebuild a new German foreign office.
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Hitler
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