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Amid the savagery of Spain's abortive revolution month ago, brawny workmen slew several priests, chopped them into chunks and exposed the flesh in butcher shops tagged "pork...
...baby arrives, it is plain that in trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries a wench. Tillie is embittered by her disappointment. Florrie dies despondently in childbirth. Only Ma's old friend, the Butcher Freiberg (Joseph Greenwald) maintains his customary calm, wagging his head as he reads Hebrew prayers in the Solomon parlor...
...intent is fraudulent. It is a sad, but honest anecdote, wisely acted and quietly written, in which Francine Larrimore, tending the Solomon sidewalk cigar stand with puzzled petulance, gives her best performance since Brief Moment. No less genuine than Florrie as self-respecting tenement dwellers are Ma Solomon, and Butcher Freiberg who, when asked for an explanation of the Solomons' misfortunes, voices the dry, dialectic theme of Spring Song: "When you are young, you expect everything from life. When you get older, you expect nothing...
...Colonels McCormick and Knox, publishers of the "Tribune" and "News" respectively, are both hot-footing it after the Republican nomination in 1936 by editorially out-damning each other in successive editions. The upper middle classes, the lawyers and bankers, are scared and make no bones about the matter. The butcher and baker, rightly accepting the editorial shrieks of the papers as gross exaggerations, are going on a "smoke means fire" theory. Only at the universities, Chicago and Northwestern, does one find any vociferous support of New Deal Policies, but this is, of course, highly localized. The Middle West is veering...
Theodore Bilbo was born 56 years ago on a back-country farm in south Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...