Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederick Coolidge Crawford, loquacious, sparkish president of Cleveland's potent Thompson Products, Inc. (aircraft and automotive valves, pistons and bearings) and board chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, was the witness whose evidence turned out unexpectedly. On the basis of some ten days spent in touring France, Belgium and Luxembourg, Crawford reported thus...
Collaborationists, said Crawford, are not necessarily quislings or traitors but industrialists who "expanded their production for the Germans" or who got "in trouble with radical labor leaders." The underground was made up largely of Communists, young people and characters from the underworld who robbed ten peaceful French families for every train they blew up. A "conservative" French friend told Crawford that France was so prosperous under the Nazis that "if these conditions had continued a year and a half longer, too many people, perhaps half of them, would have been willing to settle for things as they were...
...show's biggest asset is June Havoc's Sadie. In a role that has been played, on stage & screen, by Jeanne Eagels, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford and others, the frisky comedienne (late of Mexican Hayride) does not always measure up. But she lifts the part above its surroundings, is always engaging as June Havoc...
...Copyright 1944 by Crawford Music Corp., N.Y.C...
...faces lifted. There was Aimee's third marriage in 1931 to portly David Hutton, one of her choristers, and their divorce three years later. There was a suit for slander brought by daughter Roberta which cost Aimee $2,000, and another for $1,080,000 brought by Rheba Crawford Splivalo, Aimee's colleague at the Temple, which was settled out of court. But through all her trials Aimee kept her head high. Said she, "I only remember the hours when the sun shines, sister...