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...spectre of a house divided into a situation evolved from a newspaper's antagonism to one man. That an inactive member of the Faculty should have been added to the mess is more than unfortunate; it proves to what gamut the American can run to create a public clamor out of falsehood and sensationalism...
...last week museum and cat were the subject of public clamor. Members of the Women's Chamber of Commerce called on the mayor for repeal of the special tax from which the museum derived $239,000 last year. The city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting...
When Mr. Zukor made his prediction, cinema production, distribution and exhibition were largely separate. But a struggle for control of the industry was developing between producers and exhibitors. Such producers as Paramount got into exhibition; such exhibitors as Loew's got into production. With ever-increasing clamor during recent years, the chief trade organization of independent exhibitors, Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, has claimed that the result has been monopolization of the cinema industry to such an extent that independents could barely exist (TIME, June 7, 1937). The Department of Justice investigated, agreed. Hence last week...
...know how it will end," Benjamin Nathan Cardozo wrote in 1933. "I know that it has been an interesting time to live in, an interesting time in which to do my little share in translating into law the social and economic forces that clamor for expression." Having lived his time and done his share, as member and Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, he died last week at 68, of a diseased heart...
...anti-Communist forces continued to clamor yesterday over the appointment of Granville Hicks '23 as American History Fellow, unofficial spokesmen maintained that the University would "stand by its guns...