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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next fall, the Harvard Society for Industrial democracy will renew its activities, Stephen J. Seligman '52 announced yesterday. The organization, inoperative since 1948, the group suspended its meetings for lack of active members. With the greater number of non-veterans, the new group hopes to regain the popularity that it had before the formation of the American Veterans' Committee...
...matter what the critics say about "A Touch," they had better keep their pencils sharpened. Ivy plans to keep on making movies come what may, as long as the money lasts. Hollywood, beware-and the devil take J. Arthur Rank...
...Gooder. In Schenectady, N.Y., Edward J. Jeffries got 50 days in jail after he admitted that he had walked around town tearing overtime parking tickets off other motorists' cars...
Impressed, Colorado's Ed Johnson, Committee chairman, sent Rickenbacker's "phenomenal and challenging" proposal to CAB, whose Chairman Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. does not impress quite so easily. He accused Rickenbacker, in effect, of staging a grandstand play. Putting Rickenbacker's newest offer into practice, said O'Connell, would mean amending the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act to "create an absolute monopoly of north-south air transportation . . . east of the Mississippi." But Diagnostician Rickenbacker had, at any rate, called attention once more to the fact that since the war he has held the domestic monopoly...
...export of U.S. know-how and capital to other nations of the world (in his famed Point Four), the same idea had occurred to a small, forward-looking group of U.S., British and Canadian capitalists. The group included ex-Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, onetime OSS Boss William J. Donovan and Britain's Sir William Samuel Stephenson, World War II boss of all British secret operations in the Western Hemisphere. At war's end, they and associates* formed the World Commerce Corp. and raised an initial $1.000.000 to help "bridge over the breakdown in foreign exchange." Their...