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Political Farce. Stalin put him in charge of Soviet atomic development. His great contributions: 1) information gathered by his spies in the U.S. and Britain from Fuchs, May, Pontecorvo, the Rosenbergs, et al.; 2) uranium mined by his prisoners and impressed workmen in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and, probably, Arctic Siberia. While the Cominform's Andrei Zhdanov was making the most noise about eastern Europe, Beria quietly stepped down from his police job (now a full ministry, the MVD) and took over the organization of the satellite countries, the consolidation of the Soviet Union's own republics...
...Butte in 1913 as pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church there. Salary: $75 a month. His angry pro-labor sermons won him the support of the Socialists, who ran him for state senator. Though he refused to campaign, he won anyway. Senator Bechtel introduced bills for adult education and workmen's compensation and against capital punishment. But when he introduced a bill for Prohibition, the Socialists dropped...
...view of James Caesar Petrillo, trumpeter-boss of the American Federation of Musicians, musicians are simply workmen who make more or less pleasant noises for a living. "What's the difference," he once cried, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Last week Petrillo set up a little ceremony to pound home his point of view. Before him came Pianist Oscar Levant, penalized with suspension from the union last April for temperamentally failing to honor concert contracts, thus depriving supporting musicians of work. Levant's humiliation reminded Petrillo of another time when art bowed to business. "There...
...President Paul Davidson, giving union members a year off with pay after ten years with the company. Employees who want to work all or any part of the vacation year will get double wages. Darling sold the idea on grounds that it would 1) enable Hedco to get top workmen in labor-short Chicago and 2) cut down turnover. Furthermore, it will be eight years before any employee is eligible for the year's vacation. By week's end the company had 150 new job applicants...
Technical Tricks. Last month at Cumberland, England, British workmen broke ground at last for what may well be the world's first atomic-power station. This week, in the U.S., North American Aviation Inc., builders of the famed F-86 Sabre jet, announced that it has completed the designs for an experimental pilot power plant that is ready for public test-if the tester can be found to take...