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Similarly annoyed with the script writers last week was the International Association of Chiefs of Police, holding its annual meeting in Milwaukee. Decrying aerial crime dramas as being bad for moppets, the chiefs resolved to stop supplying radio writers with factual information from their files. Chief gripe was that their material was so distorted on the air that they could not recognize it. Whether they would approve of crime stories that stuck to the facts was left unresolved...
...gained the impression of "something that was nothing less than brotherliness between the French and English soldiers"), reports from the French Army have been different. One French soldier, on leave in Paris, told of numerous fist fights, not only between individuals but between groups of French and English. Chief gripe of the French is that the English get paid so much more (58? a day to the Frenchman's 2½?). "Les femmes," said the French soldier bitterly, "sont toutes a eux!" ("They get all the dames...
...chief gripe, however, is the ridicule that has been heaped upon a man who has the courage to speak his mind. This one fact is the surest sign that we are all headed for a moral disintegration...
...Folks." C. I. O. workers in the Maytag plant took a 10% pay cut, gave up their 13-week strike and returned to work. But the spirit with which they returned was not what Father Maytag had fostered with good pay and generous gifts. They went back with a gripe against Son & Heir Elmer Henry Maytag and Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel...
When Gropius came to Harvard one long-standing gripe among architectural students was that the "faculty jury," which judged all undergraduate designs, could not be as fair as the individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius...