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...midst of the hullabaloo, unofficial word came from the Defense Commission that National Defense requirements would be held paramount to all other considerations...
...opinion thinks uplift is fine, but uplift that makes money is even finer. Last month in Manhattan, amid an outburst of pompous, dead-pan hullabaloo, an uplifting stunt was launched by the National Committee for Music Appreciation, an outfit headed by John Erskine, novelist, musician, guiding light and onetime president of the Juilliard School of Music. The New York branch of the Committee, billing itself in double-page advertisements as "a non-profit organization," announced that it would distribute twelve sets of operatic recordings "at an incredibly small cost!"-$1.75 for three or four records. Last fortnight the same records...
...worse politically, he had refused to make national defense a political football, had saved the U. S. from being emotionally torn apart in a way that would have halted all action on the biggest U. S. problem. With Willkie approving, not even in the U.S. Senate was a hullabaloo raised over the deal which brought the U. S. eight badly needed bases...
Much Ado about Nothing. War and Navy Department officials smiled at the hullabaloo, did not greatly care about the outcome. Still on the books last week were most of President Wilson's emergency powers. Under them, in wartime or if war is imminent*, the President...
Columnists, editorialists, Republican politicos last week made hullabaloo over Henry Agard Wallace in his dual role of Secretary of Agriculture and Democratic nominee for Vice President. The clatter did not so much disturb as astound Mr. Wallace. He saw no difference in himself before and after the nomination...