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...superficial causes of the conflict were incredibly trivial. At General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Cleveland early in the week the management postponed a meeting with a shop grievance committee from 11 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. A few key metal workers belonging to United Automobile Workers union promptly "sat down" at their jobs, bringing the whole plant, with its 7,000 employes, to a halt. Already idle were 1,500 Fisher Body and Chevrolet assembly workers in Atlanta who had quit ostensibly because several employes were fired for wearing U. A. W. buttons...
...cooly set out to produce cheap, third-rate pictures to go along with major efforts. Gradually temptation overcame, and theatres have taken to showing two pot boilers at once. Such a disaster has overtaken the Paramount and Fenway this week. "Isle of Fury" and "The Captain's Kid" are Trivial, minor affairs, each adequate as an aperitif to an important movie, but in combination they do not approximate a full meal...
Anyone who has not yet seen "Swing Time" should correct that definitely. Containing some of the best music to which Astaire and Rogers have danced, it is not hampered by a trivial thing like a plot, which after all, has no place in a musical comedy. The dancing is, of course, superb. Miss Rogers has learned in a relatively short time to swing with the very best, and her efforts no longer have that strained, forced effect that was noticeable when she was chasing in Mr. Astaire's wake two or three years...
...opinion, all the other issues are transitory and trivial, and all the dispute about technique is irrelevant. . . . After all, the fellow still packs a wallop. And a philosophy of government is more important than a program...
...Lords: ¶ Subjected the present National Government to its first defeat in the House of Lords by adopting, 32-to-29, a trivial amendment to the Education Bill opposed by His Majesty's Government but sponsored by the Most Reverend Father Cosmo Gordon Lang. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...