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...speeches, even at midnight, in Springfield, Mo. (At Springfield, a small boy threw the first rotten apple of the campaign,, missing Dewey by ten feet, but conking a photographer.) At each stop Dewey continued in his Oklahoma City style, swinging freely-at bureaucracy, at the "Roosevelt" depression, at Hillman, Madam Perkins and Earl Browder...
Aroused by the public outcry, Honolulu police made the rounds telling prostitutes to move out of their homes in residential districts. This produced a wave of indignation from the prostitutes. They had pitched in and rolled bandages for the Red Cross after Pearl Harbor. One madam boasts a citation from Henry Morgenthau for selling $132,000 worth of bonds during the Fifth War Loan Drive. To be asked to move out of their private homes seemed to members of the oldest profession unfair discrimination against patriotic citizens...
...county attorney. He also heard that the mayor was in on the take, and warned him: "I'm not interested in being a conquering hero around here, but everybody is beginning to think you're a crook." Finally Hirst set a trap. He got the buxom Negro madam of the "Black and Tan Club" to insist on paying off to the mayor and police chief in person. Hirst's men watched through a peephole, recorded the transaction on a dictograph. Last week Attorney Hirst got his convictions...
Frances Perkins won the booby prize in a poll conducted by Look. Fifty-two newspaper correspondents picked the ten most and ten least useful officials in Washington, gave Madam Secretary the top spot on the "least useful" list. On the positive side they chose: General George C. Marshall (on the lists of 44 correspondents); Cordell Hull (on 33); Franklin Roosevelt (on only 32, but leading more lists - 24 - than anyone else...
...Madam Curie, the quiet yet dramatic story of the foremost woman scientist of our time, is now playing at the U.T. The theme of the picture is the discovery of radium by the Curies, an epic story of human persistence and scientific endeavor. Cast in the leads are Greer Garso and Walter Pidgeon, both of whom play their parts expertly with a degree of sureness and restraint not often seen in these days of B pictures. The supporting parts are also well cast. In particular, Dame May Whity, giving a good characterization of Pierre Curie's mother...