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With these thoughts in mind. I wish you could clear up this matter, at least as far as my personal standpoint is concerned. Michael J. de Sherhinin. Ass't Managing Editor of The Dartmouth
Plays and best-sellers of recent months have restored the integrated scoundrel to literary popularity. We don't think the Scarlett O'Haras and Sammy Glicks are sound characters from the standpoint of credibility; nor do we agree they are sufficiently rounded to be hailed the modern counterparts of Lady Macbeth. We do admit they make entertaining movie-copy, and--it may be added--plenty of it. In the same vogue are "The Little Foxes," three thorough-going heels now transposed to the screen for one price of admission...
...From the standpoint of pure economic theory, Staehle admitted complete control of wages and prices, for the farm as well as for the factory, on the totalitarian scheme, is a way of checking inflation...
...strike of 43,000 miners in the captive mines of U.S. steel mills, demanding a closed shop, was called off for a month pending further negotiation. The five-day stoppage left steel companies with little more than a week's supply of coal on hand. From a defense standpoint, probably the only thing worse than a coal strike would be a steel strike-and steel itself cannot continue production without coal...
...earnest that information would be available the Navy released the names of twelve British warships now in U.S. ports. This was a great improvement over past practice although it has one major drawback even from the Government's standpoint. There were several ships conspicuously missing from the Navy's published list, which was admittedly incomplete. The public will probably not feel much better so long as it knows that the Navy is holding out as much information as it feels like...