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Mapes Davidson of Orange, N. J., a trial examiner for NLRB, is no straw man, and doesn't pretend to be. He has plenty of dander and his dander is often up. Last week he got his dander up into national news...
...powerful, cantankerous Chicago unionist named Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle took umbrage at the management of the swank Edgewater Beach Hotel. Some said (and Mike Boyle denied) that the hotel had refused to let him live there; others, that a dispute over recognition of his electrical union got his dander up. Tough "Umbrella Mike"*knows much about the dark & bloody side of Chicago unionism, twice went to jail (for contempt of court, conspiracy to restrain trade). He was also tough enough to call out Edgewater Beach electricians, declare a strike. Allied with the electricians were waiters, cooks, busboys...
Bach demurred, gracefully. But the King of Prussia's poser had roused the King of Fugue's dander: afterwards, in Leipzig, Bach went to work. He elaborated Frederick's theme into a monumental score which he named Musikalisches Opfer (Musical Offering) and sent it to the King, with a felicitous dedication: "To Your Majesty is proffered herewith in humblest obedience a musical offering, whose most excellent portion originates from your noble hand...
...this publicity went, it did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington no harm at all. But there was a chance that the picture might get the Senatorial dander up to the danger point. The Neely Block-Booking Bill, now locked up in the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, would prevent big movie producers from compelling exhibitors to book a whole list of pictures in order to get one on the list which they want. Hollywood would much prefer to have the Neely bill stay locked up. Last week irate Senators talked of getting...
...upon Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of "appeasing" Fascism. Instead of being told that they should revamp their views to fit Washington's, they persuaded the President to leave foreign policy out of his Chapel Hill speech (TIME, Dec. 12), and further to soften his democratic dander last week...