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Blood on the Sun (United Artists], a story about a Hoover-era American editor who learned of Baron Tanaka's plan for world conquest and tried to get the document out of Japan, is mainly apocryphal. But as melodrama it is as hard, tidy and enjoyable as the work of its star James Cagney, the dean of the sort of movie in which action and good sense collaborate instead of colliding...
...Charge. Two days after the arrests, Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover told a little of what it was all about. For some time, they said, documents labeled "restricted" and "top secret" had been disappearing from the State Department and other Government agencies-War, Navy, OWI, the Federal Communications Commission, and the supersecret Office of Strategic Services. Material from some of the documents had appeared in Amerasia (which had used one OSS report verbatim) and in Free-Lance Gayn's articles in Col lier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Some...
Suggestions of the week: F. X. Hayes to be known as "Hoover" because of his proclivity for "latching on" to anything unattached within 50 feet of him. (By the way, Frankie is now carrying the picture of a girl whom he admires for her lovely blue eyes...
Died. William Kennon ("Hello World") Henderson, 74, onetime owner of Shreveport's radio station KWKH (formed from his own initials), who once made U.S. airways blue with his frequent harangues against chain-stores and Her bert Hoover ; of a heart attack ; in Shreveport, La. An admirer and intimate of the late Huey Long, Radioman Henderson made one of the loudest noises in early broadcasting (until depression and chain-broadcasting squeezed him out) ; as a side line sold lucky listeners his photograph and a 1-lb. can of "Hello World" coffee...
...capital buzzed with rumors that Herbert Hoover, famed for his European relief work after World War I, was to be put back in harness, if only as an adviser. Whatever the outcome, Harry Truman's invitation had been as shrewd as it was generous. In one master stroke, he had won the applause of Republicans and had sharply reminded the nation of the immediate necessity of feeding Europe. Even those who had balked at the idea of the U.S. "feeding the world" would now give weight to Herbert Hoover's passionate V-E day declaration...