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League pamphlets slash viciously at the Zionists. One shows a Jewish boy on his knees saying "I want to live." That, says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...
...Slash. Sinclair Lewis has scarcely ever put pen to paper without causing controversy; this time, he has thrown himself so furiously into the battle against anti-Negro discrimination that he is likely to arouse the noisiest whirlwind of his career...
Kingsblood Royal (which is the Literary Guild's choice for June) is a novel chiefly in the sense that it contains some of the most artificial fiction, dressed in the worst prose, that "Red" Lewis has ever written. In essence, it is a cut-&-slash pamphlet, packed to the boards with ferocity, diatribe and disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused...
Commerce's Civil Aeronautics Administration was mutilated almost beyond recognition. Despite congressional concern over air safety, the Taber committee recommended a $70.5 million slash in CAA funds, which would mean that after July 1 CAA could no longer maintain airport control towers (except in Washington). Its program for modernization of navigation aids would be cut in half. Observed the committee: "Air accidents will only be eliminated when people stop flying...
...thing Republicans of both houses had in mind was a tidy present for U.S. taxpayers. How big the total budget slash would ultimately be, it was too early to tell. But Republicans were counting on its being big enough to justify the sizable cut they contemplated in income taxes. The tax program was being whipped into final shape. The Senate Finance Committee approved the House's tax bill with one major change. Instead of being retroactive to Jan. 1, cuts ranging from 30% in the lower brackets to 10.5% in the upper brackets would not take effect until July...