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...policemen but U.S. Border Patrolmen guard the 900-odd Italians who are detained at scenic Missoula because there is no way of deporting them. The detainees (never referred to as prisoners) govern themselves, spend their time reading, listening to the radio, playing games, doing chores for pin money. They are not forced to work. Name of the camp, chosen by the inmates, is "Bella Vista" (see cuts...
...remind their members that golf is still being played in the ancient and honorable island of its birth, many a U.S. golf club last week posted wartime rules which govern play on British links. Samples...
Last week's documentary spectacle at the Museum of Modern Art was well worth the attention of the U.S. Govern ment and Hollywood. An instructive example of how to use the cinema to help a nation rearm, it was also an important lesson in how to show a people what it has to fight...
Strangely enough, the drive behind the 10,000,000-ton expansion was not primarily the need of plate. It came chiefly from Leon Henderson, whose job is to govern civilian supplies, and who knows that many "civilian" needs are really auxiliary defense needs. He estimated that defense demands on present steel output would leave only 36,000,000 tons for 1942 civilian needs, "and," said he, "you can't even run a depression on that." (Gano Dunn, whose report did not make a deep impression in Washington, figured 67,000,000 tons would be left for civilians, if there...
...long as the power of the U.S. Government was divided on roughly equal terms between the Judiciary, the Executive and the Congress, a change in the Supreme Court did not mean a sweeping change in the interpretation of the Constitution. But industrialism welded the U.S. people toward economic unity. More & more problems arose requiring national solutions. Nearly everything but the law rode over artificial State boundaries. In the depression the U.S. began to demand that its Executive be more executive; that the Government govern more, assume the responsibility for its citizens' economic security and livelihood. So the New Deal...