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...Bryan Leavitt Owen Rohde, onetime U.S. Minister to Denmark, the program took shape in 1940 as CBS's solution to the problem of allocating radio time to the numerous Government agencies that wanted it. CBS elected to tell, each week, the story of whatever U.S. Government activity was uppermost in the news. Assigned to the job were CBS's clearheaded Washington correspondent, Albert L. Warner, and a producerdirector, Brewster Morgan, who had directed a Shakespearean theater in England, worked in Hollywood, got radio down cold in the Columbia Workshop...
...anxious to know whether sufficient naval assistance could reach us. Our strategy is necessarily a Pacific strategy. I want to insure in time that Australia is not left alone or communications with her forces abroad cut. Everything possible associated with the defense of our own shores must be uppermost in our minds while this crisis lasts." None too popular with Australia's potent trade unions, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies' War Government is particularly vulnerable to Labor Party criticism. It is a fusion of Australia's two conservative parties, the United Australia and United Country Parties...
This truth was uppermost in the minds of 650 representatives of 5,000,000 British organized workers when they gathered last week in Southport's hoary Town Hall for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (T. U. C.). Keynote speaker was horny-handed, dynamic Ernest Bevin, who since 1910 has slugged and plugged for organized labor, is now Minister of Labor. "The British labor movement came to the rescue of this nation and the Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power...
Back in Colorado Springs, Mr. Willkie at week's end began to show signs of restlessness. Uppermost in his mind was his acceptance speech, which he planned to deliver August 1 in his home town of Elwood, Ind. To help shape the G. O. P. policies that will be announced in it, he said he had summoned Pennsylvania's onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, Kansas' Editor William Allen White, Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen. Also from Mr. Willkie came the announcement that Republican campaign headquarters would be established in Chicago...
...Uppermost in everyone's mind was whether or not mustachioed little Wilbur Shaw, driving the same Italian-made Maserati with which he won the race last year, could win his third 500-a feat that had been accomplished only once (by Lou Meyer, now retired). If he could, he would become the first driver to win twice in succession one of the most punishing sport events...