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Will Clayton spoke for only 20 minutes (subject: Democracy and Cotton) and he spoke to the point. His quarrel with the New Deal was with its attempt "to peg the world price" of cotton-i.e., to keep the price of U. S. cotton above the Brazilian, Indian and Egyptian level, thus stimulating foreign production and killing for good any remaining foreign market for U. S. cotton. Broker Clayton's speech was a straight plea for old-fashioned world free trade. Like Cordell Hull, Free Trader Clayton saw"the menacing power of Hitler" as the No. 1 obstacle...
...dangerous duty of the septet is to mop up John Brown (Raymond Massey) and his followers, then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
...Yanagihashi district voted to adopt uniforms like those worn by waitresses in keeping with the national restraint; parents were prevented by law from selling their daughters to houses of prostitution "unless they have a justifiable reason for doing so." Girl cyclists were directed to wear "peg-topped, coverall type of trousers as the tendency of kimonos to part in the front runs counter to the spirit of the times since it quickens the pulses of delinquent youths strolling in the streets who often lose their heads at such sights...
...course of its existence, the Radio Theatre has aired 272 different shows, ranging from Peg O' My Heart to the Life of Louis Pasteur. As an aerial Pasteur, Paul Muni was so nervous that he couldn't face a mike until a messenger was sent to his home for a violin. After sawing quietly away for a few minutes, Muni got a grip on himself, went through his act without a hitch. Another mike-fever victim was pop-eyed Joan Crawford, who was so scared during her first performance that she had to remain seated through...
Hitler was a favorite subject; 36 pictures of him made up a "Hitler Corner." Sylvia Asprey, 12, showed Hitler on a clothesline, captioned "Save To Bring Him Down a Peg" (see cut). James Morris, 13, made a good caricature of the Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with...