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...well as clerks and workmen, talk seriously of emigrating to lands where opportunity is not muffled. Australia has received applications from 150,000. Well-to-do Englishmen are buying estates in Eire, where eggs and meat abound. In the House of Commons last week, Herbert Morrison's brain-truster, Mr. Gordon-Walker, complained that the BBC had broadcast a song...
...Pennsylvania's Congressman John W. Murphy, Democratic member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee (which finished hearings last week after taking more than 8,500,000 words of testimony), as U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania; 2) Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, Roosevelt brain-truster, former head of SEC and OCD, to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board. CJ Received from the Banking Committee a bill to raise the price of silver from 71? to $1.29 an ounce within two years...
London critics packed off to Birmingham last week for the opening of a play by Author -Professor -Philosopher -BBC "Brains Truster" Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who once asserted he could "explain anything to anyone." Just before the curtain went up, Playwright Joad stepped out on stage and informed the critics: "It's an awful bad play. If I were you I'd go see the film across the street." After listening to assorted maunderings on marriage, Freud, religion, the machine age and Bernard Shaw, the critics wished they had taken Joad's advice...
Labor's demands, as usual, were for shorter hours and higher pay. Labor wanted to work less, spread employment and get the equivalent of wartime pay. The cost of living, labor pointed out, is still up. Said Walter Reuther, the auto workers' brain truster: full production, full employment and full distribution depend on keeping wages at their present level...
...boss, Attorney General Francis Biddle. Worse still, zealous Lawyer Littell got into the habit of denouncing Washington bungling in public. His zeal finally got on the nerves of a formidable array of Old New Dealers, including Harold Ickes, Jesse Jones, Francis Biddle and Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, ex-brain-truster turned lawyer-lobbyist...