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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave him shorts and the ability to turn around. I dare say that he is not the first time the nude has been used in the political cartoon and probably it will not be the last. The cartoonist takes materials and symbols and makes them perform for the expression of his ideas if he has any. I've found this figure useful to express what is both the policy of my paper and my own ideas and such as he is he is my own. Would that he were worthier of the very flattering tribute he received...
...issue TIME errs in reporting Governor Merriam used a dirty acetylene torch to cut the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge chain. A brand new Airco-D B emergency cutting outfit was shipped via express from our Jersey City factory for use at this history-making event...
...leaders of the American Federation of Labor are no hotheads. Last week at their convention in Tampa they resolved against "Communism, Fascism and Naziism" but refused to express sympathy for Spain's embattled workers. They registered protest against Yale University for ousting a pinko Divinity professor but declined to boycott the publications of William Randolph Hearst. They stamped approval on a scheme for Federal licensing of industry to regulate wages & hours, but brushed aside the question of a Constitutional Amendment to make it possible. They plumped for the 30-hour week but shied away from talk of curbing...
...political football out of colleges. These self-appointed defenders of liberty appear horrified at the thought that anyone but a conservative should exercise the freedom of speech, press, or assembly. No doubt there are "reds" in every college in the country, but they have as much right to express their opinions as anybody else. If the term "political" liberty is to be anything less than a farce, it must mean liberty of action for all groups who conduct themselves in a legal manner...
...alone can never make a star. Publicity plus personality-and the star is half made. Add to these assets one real hit and the trick is done. Morocco-succinctly described by Variety as a "boxoffice socko"-was the hit. Von Sternberg directed it. He followed with Dishonored and Shanghai Express. The new contract which he negotiated for himself and Dietrich specified that she was to be paid $125,000 per picture-a record at that time. Von Sternberg got a percentage of the gross. The contract was extraordinary for provisions giving von Sternberg and Dietrich complete choice of writers, cutters...