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...South Carolina, roaring his belief that in his God-blessed state a family could have security on 50? a day. A pain in the New Deal's side, he championed "white supremacy," the poll tax, states' rights. Last July, roundly trounced in the Democratic primaries by Governor Olin Johnston, he returned to his dirt farm to look after his pigs...
...orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
...Look at the Pigs. Cotton Ed's opponent in the 1938 purge attempt was Governor Olin D. Johnston, who campaigned on the slogan: "A vote for Olin D. is a vote for the principles of Franklin D." Last week Johnston opposed Cotton Ed again. By now Olin Johnston, though a supporter of Roosevelt's foreign policy, was only lukewarm to the New Deal. This time he snatched the bloody flag of "white supremacy" from Cotton Ed and raced down the field with...
...Francisco Musical Association cast about for someone to rescue the San Francisco Symphony from complete financial and artistic collapse, Monteux was suggested for the job. He was then guest-conducting at the-Hollywood Bowl. "The only difference between Toscanini and Monteux," New York Times Critic Olin Downes is reported to have remarked, "is in the waistline." San Francisco took the waistline, soon found that it surrounded one of the most sensitive, civilized, versatile and shrewdly practical men who ever wielded a baton...
...five plants, Alcoa owns one, operates two others for Defense Plant Corp. And it supplies alumina (the oxide from which aluminum is made) from its Mobile plant to the two others, operated by Reynolds Metals Co. and by Olin Corp., a subsidiary of Western Cartridge. Come peace and an end to WPB's control of alumina, Alcoa might decide to pull out of the two DPC plants and cut off alumina. This could kill the new industry...