Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drama and Corn. Patton the General is also Patton the Actor. Showmanship is instinctive in him. Like all practiced actors he can manage a deft touch of corn or a flight of oratory. He fits his act to his audience's mood. Example : his greeting to a Negro battalion arriving at his battle front-"I don't give a damn what color you are so long as you get out there and kill those sons of bitches in the green suits...
...painters and composers and so forth glorify the war effort? Are they Good Americans or are they not? . . . When I was a boy, Good Americans were-believe it or don't-adoring the Japanese and loathing the Russians. . . . When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet...
Important to labor, which fears an all-out assault to emasculate the Wagner Act at war's end, was the promise of the C. of C. president that: "The fundamental rights of labor to organize . . . and collective bargaining . . . shall be preserved, free from legislative enactments...
...timid old lady crossing a street, the National Labor Relations Board has not been able to make up its mind on the knotty problem of foremen's unions. Last week it changed its mind again. This time it said foremen have the right to organize under the Wagner Act, a flat reversal of its ruling two years ago. Foremen, once regarded as bosses, were now held to be employes with no managerial power...
...writing the majority opinion, Justice William O. Douglas admitted that the Court cannot set aside the rates approved by ICC. Nor can the Court act as a rate-making body, a function which Congress has specifically delegated to ICC. But, said Justice Douglas: "If the alleged combination is shown to exist, the decree which can be entered will be no idle or futile gesture. It will eliminate . . . the collusive practices which the antitrust laws condemn. . . . It will supply an effective remedy." On this, the dissenting Justices, led by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, said sharply: "It seems obvious that this...