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...issue of discrimination raises an even louder howl, mostly from the South. The southern states operate a wasteful segregation system--one set of schools for whites, one for Negroes--which helps to make southern education the worst in the country. Assuming that federal aid will go where it is most needed, the South stands to receive the biggest share, and citizens in the north ask why they should pay taxes to support a wasteful and repugnant system of "dual education...
Most so-called serious novelists have an ax to grind, a true bill to find, a point of view that they want to uphold regardless of how many opposing points of view they may have to howl down or ignore in the process. James Gould Cozzens is like his fellows in this respect-with one admirable difference. The point he insists on making is that the world is far too wrapped up in different points of view for any one of them to be entirely true, that "the Nature of Things abhors a drawn line and loves a hodgepodge...
...loud howl came from New York Star Columnist Albert Deutsch; who had seen the picture in London. Deutsch charged that "even . . . Dickens . . . could not make Fagin half so horrible," and warned that the film would fan the flames of antiSemitism. In Manhattan, the Board of Rabbis appealed to Eric Johnston to keep the movie off U.S. screens. Other Jewish groups took...
Surprisingly, there was no loud howl from radiomen. Everybody seemed to have been expecting it. The new code of the National Association of Broadcasters, radio's own trade organization, is flatly on record, as of July 1, that "any broadcasting designed to 'buy' the radio audience, by requiring it to listen in hope of reward, rather than for quality of entertainment, should be avoided...
...howl of dismay was only one in the millions that made up the screaming wake of China's jet-propelled inflation last week. In two days, while Chiang Kai-shek was desperately trying to bolster the morale of his dispirited armies in Central China, the value of China's currency on Shanghai's black market dropped by half. In Shanghai a wet-nurse unable to find food for her family went on strike, demanding 100 lbs. of rice from her employer. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary $16 million...