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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students questioned, 87 per cent were in favor of aid of some sort to Britain, and 13 per cent were opposed to aid of any sort. Of those in favor of aid, 12.6 per cent were in favor of limited aid; 32.5 per cent were in favor of all material aid; 36.5 per cent were in favor of all necessary aid; and 18.8 per cent were in favor of military aid. The total of those opposed to all aid, those in favor of limited material aid, and those in favor of all material aid, is approximately 52 per cent. This...
...necessary to defend the choice. The little man, now the indomitable sea dog, Captain Mitty, now the great surgeon, and overshoes, but even in the moment of defeat and annihilation "the inscrutable Walter Mitty"-- he may remain for us the symbol of our age, with his two-for-a-cent dream life manufactured by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his real life a complex of frustration. There is space only to mention Irwin Shaw's three stories, Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary "I Am Waiting" and Mark Schorer's un-Jamesian "Portrait of Ladies...
...scientific sample of public opinion," if it is correct, shows that almost half of the student body is in favor of going to war if necessary. 16.3 per cent are in favor of military aid to Britain immediately and another 31.7 per cent would be willing to go to war only if England were in imminent danger of defeat...
Almost an eighth or 10.9 per cent, of the College students are in favor only of limited material aid and 28.2 per cent would like to see full material aid without any military aid in any case...
Main line of defense for ASCAP in the battle of the air-waves is the fact that in the mid-twenties its right was recognized under the copyright law to assess broadcasters for etherizing its music. The Society was for a while satisfied with a five per cent cut. But when networks incorporated and, finding themselves not liable to royalty fees, proceeded to juggle their books so as to lessen the amount paid by individual stations, ASCAP began to feel double-crossed. Hence the new contracts placing a seven and one-half per cent dent on income from all chain...