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...labor won its first big victory when the upstart United Rubber Workers (C.I.O.) forced giant Goodyear Tire & Rubber to rehire 70 discharged workers. The U.R.W. signed members in wholesale lots, now has practically all of Akron's 60,000 rubber workers. Many of them are husky, fearless men from the hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia with a background of poverty, moonshining, revenooers...
Gerald L. K. Smith, the rabble-rousing, anti-Administration, anti-British (but not notably anti-Nazi) preacher of isolationism, last week nominated his own Hall of Fame-"a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans": 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst...
...preface to one of these 16 short plays William Saroyan compares himself to George Bernard Shaw. The comparison is not altogether presumptuous. He shares with Shaw a fearless, sassy gaiety, and like Shaw he holds naturalism, heavyminded-ness and the theater in general in contempt. Both, in Saroyan's words, believe that the theater "all theater-should be fun. . . ." Whatever else they are, these plays and prefaces...
...rather be victorious over THE TRIBUNE than over Jeff Davis, howl on. . . . We go our own way, at our own time, in our own manner, in company of our own choosing, knowing as we do that vindication will be sure to follow. We can afford to be honest, and fearless, and to wait...
Broad-shouldered, fearless Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo, who has led Norse opposition to Quisling and the Nazis, resigned his post last week in protest against their latest coercive measure...