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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herbert Robinson 3L of the Anti-War Committee and Hal Draper, member of the Fourth International and one of the founders of the American Student Union, accompanied Thomas on the platform. Robinson explained in detail the reasons why the Peace Rally Committee and the Anti-War Committee were holding separate meetings...
Last week the museum on the first floor of Secretary Harold Ickes' new, white, boxlike Department of the Interior Building in Washington was given over to an exhibition of Pioneer Jackson's aged photographs. Admired by public and connoisseurs alike were the vivid detail and panoramic scope of the mountain and forest views that Old Master Jackson had snap ped with his battered, wooden 6½-by-8½ camera in days when photography was scarcely more than a stunt. Best exhibit of all was spry Oldster Jackson himself, stooped and white-bearded but talkative and effervescent...
...Aleppo, the French and British commanders met with Turkey's high command in long sessions at which they were reported to have mapped out, in minutest detail, plans for tri-power action in the event of Balkan invasion by Germany or a Caucasian war with Russia. The Balkans buzzed with a report (discounted in London and Paris) that Turkey had promised the Allies free passage through the Dardanelles for war purposes and use of her harbors at Trebizond, Samsun and Sinope for a blockade of the Black...
...newfangled ones look sick. It is very English (even the daffy sisters remain outdoor girls to the last), but it makes a genteel Victorian parlor seem more sinister than any number of opium dens. And it has the solid English virtue of never sacrificing plausibility to excitement: every detail, is made clear, and every character is pretty much of a human being...
Like most books by working newspapermen, this one is better in detail than in structure. Authors Thompson & Raymond never develop their reference to a fact which would seem highly relevant to the present hullabaloo in Brooklyn: "The reduction of Tammany to the status of a borough organization in Manhattan, the borough of diminishing population, and . . . the rise of other and stronger bosses in Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket...