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...much truth is in that picture? Leathery-faced Philip Bancroft, well-hated member of the executive committee of California's Associated Farmers and a fluent hater of John Steinbeck, says, "About as much as there was in Prohibition beer." Owlish, bespectacled California Commissioner of Immigration and Housing Carey McWilliams, who enrages growers by plumping for collective farms to solve California's farm problem, says, "It was true two years ago, is not so true...
...movie houses simultaneously on the eve of the 93rd anniversary of his birth. The Port Huron of the picture is a less appreciative human hive with no movie houses. Its citizens seem to have little else to do but torment Tom Edison. Even Tom's kindly father (George Bancroft) begins to look askance at his gifted offspring, who is universally called "addled" or "tetched." Mother Edison (Fay Bainter) explains the unhappy state of affairs: it is because "Tom is looking for causes, not effects." Tom seems to feel most of the effects. He is roughed up, slapped down...
...Ibis following Henry Hayes '40 will be Walter Russell Bowie, Jr., who lives in Winthrop House and New York City. Other executive members of the Literary Board to-be are Edward Phelps Joshua Zimmerman '41 of Lowell House and Washington, D. C. as Narthex and Bancroft Gherardi Davis '41 of Leverett House and Boston as Secretary...
...yard relay: Won by Harvard (L. Stowell, Goldwasser, H. Stowell, Griffin); second, Boston (E. Gordon, E. Bancroft, Tirrell, Runge). Time...
...duty next led him into California affairs. Chief witness from that State was Harper Knowles, who is chairman of the State American Legion's Radical Research Committee. Mr. Knowles is on leave from his job as secretary to the Associated Farmers, an antiunion organization headed by Philip Bancroft, Republican candidate for Senator. Mr. Knowles declared that John G. Clark, Democratic State Campaign Committee chairman, and Ellis Patterson, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor, are Communist Party members; that Culbert Olson, Democratic candidate for Governor, and Sheridan Downey, for Senator, loyally subscribe to the Communist "Party Line." Whereupon Senator La Follette...