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...Industries Board, saw U. S. industry combined "in effective cooperative endeavor" in order "to work out a vast problem for the common good." That this would be remote from all governmental or political agencies he stressed, saying, "Bit by bit we have almost completely bartered away our birthright of economic freedom because industry, unable to solve its own problems, has left no alternative to an appeal to government...
Headquarters for unionizing the South will be at Birmingham, Ala. In charge will be a committee of three: Paul Smith of United Mine Workers, Vice President Francis J. Gorman of United Textile Workers, Vice President William C. Birthright of Tennessee Federation of Labor. Under the committee now are 50 organizers; 50 more will be added next month...
Author Stribling, sometimes called the Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...
...stand. Her witnesses insisted that she was only a night club employe, no proprietor. Said the prosecuting attorney in his summation: "She has conducted herself like a lady in court. There has been no wisecracking around here. But this woman, with her God-given talents, has sold her birthright for a mess of pottage." The jury refused to convict her. The Duke Steps Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Nonsense about a young student in a California co-educational university who wins the world's light-heavyweight fisticuffing championship and the girl he loves, is made pleasant and almost credible...
...privileges of which the college man should be most jealous, following him who can lead revealingly into the mysteries of history and literature, of science, and to forego such opportunities because one is absorbed in some trival extraneous activity is simply to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage. Folly is too mild a term for such ineptitude." President Augell of Yale...