Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your report about my speech in the Musicians Congress in Los Angeles (TIME, Sept. 25) was right; but the chairman, Mr. Lawrence Morton, exaggerates his generosity when he states that only by "an excess of tolerance and democracy . . . we allowed Mr. Ludwig to speak at all." The Secretary of the Congress, Professor Rubsamen, whom I did not know, asked me urgently to replace in the last moment another orator at that Congress, at which I had nothing at all to do. After having accepted, I received a letter full of thanks for my willingness to help...
Hisses right back at excessively tolerant and democratic Chairman Lawrence Morton and his "convocation of musicians and intellectuals." If they can't take Emil Ludwig's unpalatable truths, what hope for a sincere and unhypocritical democracy have we of the bourgeoisie...
...wound Chairman Morton and his convocation of historical illiterates deeply to learn this, but Jesus Christ was born into one of our more infamous dictatorships -much as we could wish that He had been born to the credit of a democracy...
Down to see John Warner in his professional capacity were Bob Stewart and Bob Perkins. Tom Morton had recommended his old business associate to them. It seems that Tom used to help Dr. Warner with his "before and after" advertising business...
...have convinced Londoners that the lights would really go up in Piccadilly. But the dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout. In cases where the left half...