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...moving in last week on the U.S. armed forces. The racketeers, known to Tin Pan Alley as the "song sharks," mulct their victims-amateur songwriters-for amounts up to $100 apiece. The U.S.O. is after the sharks, but civilian experience indicates that little can be done except to warn potential G.I. suckers. Most sharks manage to operate within...
There were signs that Chiang had bent a shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what...
...action was like slipping a raincoat on the economy to prepare for the deluge of cutbacks and contract cancellations to come. The big job of building the ark was up to Congress. In galloping haste, War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes hustled up Cap itol Hill last week to warn Congress that by the closing months of the year "many persons may be unemployed." He demanded quick action on legislation for contract termination, manpower regulations, unemployment insurance...
Well do the walls remember how she went directly to the visitors gallery. As soon as the students became aware of her identity, her first words were greeted with cheers and jeers. She tried to warn them against cigarette-smoking teachers. Then she came to the subject of the intoxicating items on the menu. "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff. Its poison," she cried...
...summer, Mrs. Cromwell had been ill at Shangrila, her lush Hawaiian estate with an orchid-hung solarium and a $20,000 hydraulically elevated diving board. When Mrs. Cromwell's secretary learned that Politician Cromwell planned to rush to his wife's bedside, she telephoned from Hawaii to warn him that he would not be welcome -that he would, in fact, be locked out. "I don't care if she wants me to come or not,' Jimmy cried, "I'll come even if it's only for the sake of public appearance. Doesn...