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Taking the Bread Away. Trouble comes in threes, say the gypsies-from the devil, his wife and their son. It was that way after World War I; the gypsies were beset by the passport,, the factory and hygiene (they called doctors the "makers of dead men"). Hungary introduced compulsory bathing for gypsies; in Moravia, they were shorn bald; in Soviet Russia, they were put to work in factories and on collective farms-their songs, complained the Communists, were too melancholy. "Astrologists and psychologists are taking away the bread from the mouths of our wives and mothers," complained the chairman...
...career girl before Look did. As a 16-year-old Bostonian with a gift of gab, she talked herself into a $100-a-week advertising job with Gimbels in Manhattan. By 1936 she had an advertising agency of her own and was making $20,000 a year. On Passport No. 1492, she was the first U.S. businesswoman to visit Europe after V-E day. In 1946 she quit her agency to work with the Famine Emergency Committee. Nine months later she and Publisher "Mike" Cowles, friends since 1941, were married (he for the third time, she for the second...
Eisler, an avowed Communist, has recently been convicted of passport violations and contempt of the Un-American Committee. He is now out on ball pending the outcome of his appeal...
Eisler is the only avowed Communist who will appear at the meeting. Recently convicted of passport violations and contempt of the Un-American Committee, he is now out on ball pending the outcome of his appeal. According to Committee head J. Parnell Thomas, Eisler was an agent of the Comintern and head of all seditious communist activities in this country...
...delegation promptly recovered the State Department's fumble. It cabled the department and Communist Magil got his passport. (He threatened to make another fuss at Geneva unless another Worker reporter got a passport to cover the Italian election April...