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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Writer Ardrey as Producer Berman and Director Minelli that the picture "stoutly refused to spice up the sin or gloss over the grimness of Emma's life . . ." If writers were not such forgotten men in Hollywood [you might have] a few more good pictures . . . to list as Current & Choice...
...Others objected that if the bounty were raised, it would pay the city's poor to go into the business of rat-raising and Bombay would wind up with more rats than ever. Councillor Gordhandas Goculdas Moraji, an orthodox Hindu, shuddered at even considering rat extermination during the current festival in honor of Ganapati (Ganesha), an elephant-headed god who likes to ride around on a rat (see cut). Councillor Dinkar Dattatrya gave what he called the "socialist theory on rats": he declared that "only eradication of the slums, overcrowding and hoarding would result in eradication of the rats...
...widening gulf between Protestants and Catholics has become an important national issue." With these words, the current American Mercury introduced a hammer & tongs Protestant-Catholic debate to bring the points of antagonism between the two faiths "into the open for public examination...
Vandeveer gave two main reasons for selling: 1) tax laws which "encourage small businessmen to take their earnings in capital gains instead of paying taxes on current income" ("you have to sell out"); 2) the problem of paying inheritance taxes. As the two partners owned almost all the corporation's stock, the shares had no established market value. A public sale, said Vandeveer, would have brought a price far below the company's worth as a going concern. Yet it was precisely Allied's value as a going concern which the Government would have used...
Died. Charles Round Low Cloud, 76, Indian columnist since 1919 for the weekly Black River Falls Banner-Journal (circ. 5,503), who "thought in Winnebago and wrote in English" and whose punctuation-less comments* on current events were reprinted by many a daily U.S. newspaper; in Back River Falls...