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...Berle's notes was the line: "Plans for two super-battleships secured in 1937-who gave-." Also from Berle's notes: "Donald Hiss [brother of Alger], member of C.P. with Pressman and Witt . . ." and-"Alger Hiss, Ass't. to Sayre-C.P.-1937. Member of Underground Com.-Active...
...such men, no technological progress under collectivism can compensate for the rape of their property. I talked to a Cro atian peasant who thought he could not hold out much longer against the cooperative drive. His assets had melted. He com plained of having no sense of security, of being at the mercy of sudden and unjustifiable levies. "I am eating as well as before the war," he admitted, "but if I had ten sons I would send them all out of the country." He would, if he could. A Yugoslav who applies for a passport to leave the country...
Adapted by Adolph Green and Betty Com den from their own stage hit of 1944, On the Town is still the story of three sailors on a 24-hour fling in Manhattan. Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) quickly team up with a pretty man-eating cab driver (Betty Garrett) and a man-crazy anthropology student (Ann Miller). Meanwhile, Gabey (Actor-Director Kelly) scours the town looking for his ideal: Miss Turnstiles (Vera-Ellen), the girl-of-the-month on the subway posters...
...Southern Congressmen had pressured CCC to buy the seed from farmers at a support price of $46.50 a ton, higher than the local open-market price of $45 and under. Producers were, of course, the only ones happy. Processors, who turn the seed into cottonseed cake for cattle feed, com plained that they were unable to compete with the Government's purchases and get the seed they needed. Result: there was a shortage, though possibly temporary, of cottonseed cake and the price jumped from $60 to $68 a ton in six weeks.* This naturally made beef cattle feeders...
...Mayor of Boston, Curley is forever at words points with the Boston Finance Commission. The Commission (or the Fin Com as it is most commonly called) is a five-man board appointed by the governor to keep a constant eye on the city's financial condition. Since the state government was Republican during most of Curley's administration, the Fin Com was generally very hostile to him; even during his first administration when the late Senator David I. Walsh, a democrat, was governor, the members of the Fin Com bitterly fought Curley's spending. But, for all their efforts...