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...called Associated Farmers. These "Farmers" track very little earth into their parlors. They were born at a meeting of an agricultural committee of the State Chamber of Commerce in 1934, when the State was being invaded by Dust Bowl migrants (the Okies of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath). The Okies wanted better wages, better living conditions than Mexican peons. With mounting labor costs, great industrialized farms faced a cut in profits. Shippers, canners, bankers were also vitally concerned. The time had come, the Chamber of Commerce decided, for "aggressive action if business is to survive...
Fortnight ago, the long fight ended in fireworks on the House floor. Gentle Bob Ramspeck, victory in sight, got tough. He took the floor for 18 explosive minutes, with his Georgia drawl grown corrosive, laid about him with two years' pent-up wrath. When he was through, spoilsmen's bodies were figuratively heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain...
Professional Hollywood tips its hat to a dozen top cameramen. There is lean, youthful Gregg Toland, who grabbed last year's Oscar with his eerie effects in Wuthering Heights, has this year supplied two more candidates with The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home. Toland's daring, imaginative style has earned him a reputation as the Artist of the cameramen, even though he is somewhat shorter on technical skill than his top-notch competitors. After 20 years at the job, Toland, now 36, earns $62,000 a year from his contract with Samuel Goldwyn, lives a quiet...
...Japanese blessed with farsightedness saw things abroad to make them lose their heads in graver ways. They saw that Japan had been treated to the short end of the Axis, that the three-way pact had tremendous advantages for Germany and Italy, but that it merely brought Japan new wrath from the U. S. and renewed suspicion from Russia. To Winston Churchill the pact was so weighted against Japan that he wondered "whether there are not some secret clauses." Besides this lopsided pact, there were specific threats...
...Ghostland (Lippincott; $2.50), Fred Rothermell looks in on similar folk in the Ozarks. The Fulton family of Brooklyn, N. Y. arrives in the drought country to inherit a farm about the time John Steinbeck's Joad family (The Grapes of Wrath) leaves for California. Rothermell's prose is less artificial than Steinbeck's, his Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help...