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...Yorkers, still discussing Edna Ferber's taunt that their city was "the dirtiest in the world" (TIME, May 4), got some new criticism to chew on last week...
Bestselling Author Edna (Giant) Ferber, fresh from a tour of European cities, eased into home port aboard the Cunard liner, Queen Elizabeth, as it docked in New York last week. Even before setting foot ashore, she had some harsh words to say about the city: "New York is the dirtiest city in the world ... a once exquisitely beautiful woman who has declined into a dirty, degraded, blowzy person ... a scab on the face of our country." The streets, she added, were covered with garbage, "and I don't mean dirt...
This is one of the oldest--and dirtiest--tricks in the Republican bag. By steadfastly preserving Rule 22, which allows unlimited "debate" unless 64 Senators vote for cloture, the Republicans make it possible for the Southerners to kill by filibuster every piece of legislation designed to give Negroes a couple of civil rights...
...economic health depends on so small and crucial a thing as a 10% increase in its annual coal production. To help dig that extra coal, the National Coal Board last year invited 5,000 unemployed Italian miners to work in the pits. They were to be given the dirtiest and lowest-paid jobs; they would be the first to be fired in hard times. But 18 months and $615,000 later, only 2,200 had been placed. And their 715,000 British workmates threatened to down tools unless the "Eyeties" were thrown...
...battlefield, Malaya is small compared to Korea or Indo-China, but it boasts one of the dirtiest guerrilla wars onstage today. For close to four years, a handful of Communist-led bandits lurking in Malaya's jungles have terrorized the country, kept an army of British regulars and natives (140,000 at present) on the alert, and cost the government some $140 million a year. The cost to the world in lost Malayan rubber and tin may have been far more...