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...Deed Is Done. The National Frontists were goaded by the fact that the Communist Tudeh party was trying hard to take over the popular anti-British movement, was yelling that the Nationalists were selling out to the British. Without notice to the Premier, Dr. Mohamed Mossadeq, Frontist leader and Majlis (Parliament) speaker, called a meeting of the parliamentary oil commission, rammed through a report that recommended immediate expropriation of A.I.O.C. The Majlis unanimously made the report the law of the land, provided for a commission to work out details within three months. Majlis members knew that dissent would invite assassination...
...Like the boy in The Fallen Idol, The Magnet's hero (William Fox) is the victim of his childishly dramatized interpretation of overheard conversations and the mysterious conduct of adults. While the police look for him to give him a medal for an unwitting civic good deed, he fears that he is being hunted down as a thief and possibly a murderer. His psychiatrist father (Stephen Murray) smugly assures his worried wife (Kay Walsh) that their son's suddenly queer actions indicate a fairly normal sort of mother fixation...
...steel plants. He moved: "That this House, in view of the record production attained by the iron and steel industry and the urgent needs of the rearmament program, is of the opinion that . . . nationalization ... is not in the public interest and should be reversed." Churchill called steel nationalization "a deed of partisan aggression . . . unpatriotic." A general election "cannot be long delayed, however tightly and even passionately ministers may cling to their offices...
Only one man need by expended. Concealing himself in the nearby W.C. on some pretext until the appropriate time, all he need do is rush one or two shells tot he trusty longbore, jerk the lanyard, and the destructive deed is done. None of your flimsy cloak-and-dagger time-bomb plots--not on your life. Thanks to the keen vision of our forefathers, Harvard is now in a good position to strike a strong counterblow in its Battle for Survival...
...Most notable response: asked for $1,000,000 in 1940 to help buy up the deed of the opera house, 166,000 opera lovers from coast to coast topped the amount...