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Since money-hugging French Proletarians scarcely think of how much they work in their concentration on how much they earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...
...half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took four seamen with...
Sailors of Cattaro (by Friedrich Wolf; Theatre Union, producer). In January 1918, a section of the Austrian Imperial Fleet cowered in the Adriatic's Bay of Cattaro. Superior British warships had knocked the Austrian seamen groggy every time they ventured out to fight in their decrepit craft. Bad food, bad news, bad treatment had utterly demoralized the sailors at Cattaro. Encouraged by food riots and strikes by the War-weary proletariat ashore, the seamen mutinied. Playwright Wolf, a German Communist whom Adolf Hitler chased into Russia, has built a strapping propagandist melodrama out of the Cattaro incident. And, like...
...main floor?through Louis Howe's office with its pale pistachio green walls (about which the President's No. 1 secretary grumbled softly); through the office of Secretary Howe's Secretary Margaret Durand (whose nickname is "Rabbit"); across the vestibule where Captain Clarence L. Dalrymple and Lieutenant Larry Seamen of the White House uniformed police force stand guard to pass legitimate visitors, turn back cranks. The President peeked into the new room set aside for White House correspondents, spied on the wall a large photograph of a chubby, smiling face, inscribed "With the kind regards of Herbert Hoover...
...Button's practice to call upon God as his witness when the honesty of his ventures is questioned. When his son accuses him of the murder of his seamen, Button automatically asks God to strike him dead if he is not innocent. According to Playwright Levy, God does, in the guise of the San Francisco earthquake...