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Many of the young British hopefuls are none too happy about the Air Corps methods. Typical gripe: "Men are eliminated in quick succession and at the present rate only half the men will have won their spurs when this Overseas Training scheme comes to an end. . . . Time is being wasted, for there's no doubt that the majority of the eliminated cadets will take the whole course again either in Canada or at a training school under R.A.F. supervision...
...itself Gustav Siegfried Eins began sending out anti-Nazi propaganda from inside Germany. Its voice identified itself as "The Chief." The Chief's policy was anti-Semitic and anti-Communistic, as well as anti-Nazi, leading listeners to suspect a group of old-school monarchist Army officers. Chief gripe: the awarding of the Iron Cross to SA and SS men for killing Jews and Communists. Sample...
Like most gossips, Jimmie Fidler, onetime extra, onetime editor of Screenland, does not underestimate his own importance. As soon as he broke with CBS, he prepared an official statement, lugubriously entitled "Radio Censorship Unbearable," sent it to FCC Chairman J. Lawrence Fly, and Senators like Wheeler & Nye. His chief gripe: CBS wouldn't let him rate pictures (according to a chromatic scheme running from "No bells" for rotten to "Four bells" for a smash) the way he wanted to. Moaned...
...then held a bigger and better meeting of his own. Another Free Company drama to which the Legion objected was The Mole on Lincoln's Cheek. It made a plea for freedom to teach, put in a plug for honest textbooks. Probable cause of the Legion's gripe was that its characters included a few witch-hunting operatives of a "Veterans' League...
...lumbering, leftish ex-newspaperman named Ferdinand Lundberg decided to give form to his favorite gripe: big, fat capitalists and their de facto control of our de jure Government. Under his microscope went 60 of the fattest with their families, their incomes, their politics, their philanthropies. He wrote an erudite bombshell of questionable accuracy titled America's 60 Families, watched his subjects squirm while Secretary Ickes and then Assistant Attorney General Jackson quoted it with gusto. Within less than a year the families were sprawled under more powerful microscopes as the Temporary National Economic Committee made a study of corporate...