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...show's biggest asset is June Havoc's Sadie. In a role that has been played, on stage & screen, by Jeanne Eagels, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford and others, the frisky comedienne (late of Mexican Hayride) does not always measure up. But she lifts the part above its surroundings, is always engaging as June Havoc...
After reading the article, we are praying that the war will soon be over in Germany so Tallulah Bankhead may take a drink (in public) and the sailors at Farragut Naval Training Center will have their excuse for kissing the local females aged nine...
Economics by Law. After his law was signed by President Roosevelt, John Bankhead waited & waited, three long months, for War Food Administrator Marvin Jones to get busy and buy cotton. Marvin Jones showed no enthusiasm-he was having trouble enough buying the avalanche of wheat pouring into midwest markets...
Last week Bankhead could wait no longer. It was Congressional vacation time, and his Southern voters were waiting for some proof of the $50 million gift from the taxpayers. Bankhead turned on the heat; Marvin Jones hastily ordered the Commodity Credit Corp. to start buying cotton at parity, beginning Oct. 2. This was believed to be a temporary policy of expediency, to apply to the 1944 crop only -but the consternation in the trade was the commodity news of the week...
...Bankhead's efforts to squeeze the last penny of profit out of wartime cotton prices actually means nothing less than socialization of the cotton growers. For the Government may well become the sole buyer of their crops, the arbiter of price, and the dictator of production. Even the hardest-boiled cotton grabber would admit that under this act and its accompanying policy, free markets and free trading have gone a-glimmering-for as long as the policy lasts...