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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Golden's Goslings. Currently Golden has an office in the Producers' Building and is hatching (in partnership with RKO) another Golden egg of which, like a man holding a second winning ticket in the sweepstakes, he says, over & over: "I got another! I got another!" Out of Louis Lochner's What About Germany? Golden is making a picture called The Master Race...
...G.O.P. only after T.R., when Republican leadership passed to William Howard Taft, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and Charles Evans Hughes. Ergo, writes Dr. Binkley, the No. 1 job facing Republicans today is to get the labor and lower-income vote back. He summarizes: > "Rapidly growing organized labor, voting the Democratic ticket almost 3-to-1, will not be impressed by cautiously phrased platform planks perfunctorily approving collective bargaining." (This advice went unheeded at the recent G. O. P. conferences in Mackinac.) > "It is one of the tragedies of the Republican Party today that despite its origin as the champion of free...
...Taxes and national savings will be "strengthened." (Already a man pays 30% tax on his movie ticket, a 30-60% tax on his lunch, a 200% tax on his geisha fee.) > Business "control organs," which, under a truce between Big Business and the Army, regulate production, wages and hours, will be drastically reformed. > Holidays will be curtailed. Tojo's Fears. Of the 2,900 words in Tojo's address, Italy was not one. But the Italian collapse, Tojo knew, did more than remove an ally. It Also foreshadowed stronger Anglo-U.S. pressure in the Pacific, and dented...
...that workers got cheap, comfortable transportation from downtown Portland, Ore. to three Kaiser shipyards. One million dollars was paid for two ferries which in gayer days had taken San Francisco vacationists across the Bay to the World Fair. Now, for 10?, a worker could buy a round-trip ferry ticket to the Swan Island yards or the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. Twenty railroad cars were purchased from the Southern Pacific. These offered a round trip to the Vancouver yards...
Last week lanky Irving Dilliard reported in the New Republic on a trip through Oklahoma, checked the Democrats' work. When Herbert Hoover's 1928 victory swept Republicans into State jobs, the Democratic legislative majority promptly put through a law separating the Presidential ticket from State office ballots, so that small-fry Democrats might be re-elected even when their Presidential candidate went down. Then last November, Edward H. Moore, a Democrat-turned-Republican, trounced New Dealer Josh Lee for the U.S. Senate. Democrats in the State Legislature saw new storm signals, decided to act again. This time they...