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...whole membership of the American Newspaper Guild would not undo last week what its delegates had already done at the smoothly-steered June convention. In a referendum forced by the Columbus, Ohio unit which reconsidered every resolution passed at the convention, 5,083 of the Guild's paid up editorial members upheld affiliation with C. I. O. 3,392-to-1,691. Further, the membership endorsed (2,774-to-2,202) the resolution urging independent political action with other labor groups when this seems desirable, called (2,815-to-2,178) for increased WPA appropriations to keep needy newspapermen...
...afternoon they took the bill, in committee-of-the-whole, and attached their earmarking amendments to it. Two days later Leader Rayburn attempted to pull the Administration forces together and undo the damage. Representative Woodrum, bitter that $500,000,000 should be cut for pork but not for economy, assisted. But the earmarking bloc remained in the saddle. The Administration leaders had to resort to a filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being rushed to passage. The temper of the House was made manifest when an amendment was adopted limiting any WPA salary to $10,000. No name needed...
...Even Katharine, who has just found he is alive, leaves him when he refuses her appeal to save the men he has condemned for his own murder. The judge is about to pronounce sentence when what is left of Joe's conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection of the lynchers' fury. Reminiscent in its power of last year's famed Informer, though far more spectacular, a good deal less sincere, Fury is a triumph for Joseph Mankiewicz, young M-G-M producer, and Fritz Lang, monocled Austrian director (M), whose first...
...prisoner-lover has escaped. In the play, her first success, Mrs. Carter let down her bright red hair and swung 229 times in Manhattan in 1895, 96 times in London in 1898. In Mrs. Carter's later plays, David Belasco always arranged a scene in which she could undo her hair. Hence the favorite remark of the 1890's: "Let's go to the new Belasco play and see Mrs. Carter let her hair down...
...future cannot undo all the Binders of the past. . . . But there are things we can certainly draw into our map of the future if we wish. Such a map might show the disastrous kind of erosion finally checked. Instead of gullied hillsides and slopes ... it would show terraces; alternations of tilled land and grasslands; new forests springing up in belts and patches. ... It would show ... the scientific uses of all the land in the Valley, determined after long studies of soils and climatic conditions. No farmer would be trying to grow corn on land fit only for timber, or wheat...