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...darkness just before one dawn last week an automobile sped into that part of New York City which lies north of the Harlem River, ground to a halt at the great Bronx Terminal Market. Foodhandlers, working under arc lights, stopped to stare and pound their frozen hands together, as out of the car emerged a small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle...
Last week hundreds of U. S. industrialists and the heads of their trade organizations assembled in Manhattan for what they were pleased to call the annual Congress of American Industry. Upper chamber in this congress is the potent National Association of Manufacturers, at whose two-day session the books arc closed for the business oratorical year. If an intelligent Tasmanian recluse had dropped into the Grand Ball Room of the Hotel Commodore where the NAM meetings were held last week he might have gathered that: 1) The U. S. is currently a subject nation under alien rule. 2) This rule...
...Producer Zanuck got his idea for this picture from TIME'S story on the life of the Maryland physician who served a prison term for doctoring John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 4 & March 18). *"Annie Oakleys'' arc so called because holes are usually punched in them to prevent their being sold...
...from doing so until his attitude changes." Poet Carl Sandburg mourned: "Such regimented oathtaking has in the past never achieved constructive good. It is failing today in Nazi Germany. It failed in Prohibition America. It failed in the reconstructed States of the South. It failed with Joan of Arc and with Galileo...
Guided in general by sectarian and sectional feeling, the commission put in the favorite hymn of the Methodist Protestants : Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord: Abide in him always, and feed on His Word; Make friends of God's children, help those that arc weak, Forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek...