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The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

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Title:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Date:
1944
Publisher:
New York : Richard R. Smith
Volume:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Leaf #:
00043
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 01, 2025
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Nickels and Billions (From an address at War Activities Committee Third War Loan Rally, Washington, D. C, August 26, 1943.) Gathered here in this third of our regional war bond rallies are the motion picture industry's campaign chairmen from 27 states. We have just listened to a brilliant exposition of the nation's war financing by the National Director of the Treasury Department's War Finance Committee, Theodore Roosevelt Gamble, of Portland, Oregon. We of motion pictures are proud that Uncle Sam chose one of our own number for this tremendously important fiscal post and that another superlative showman, Oscar Doob, is his associate. Ever since this Third War Loan conference started this morning we have been talking in billions of dollars. To hear Ted Gamble, Oscar Doob, and some of the rest of you rolling these huge figures off your tongues, one would never guess that humble nickels were still important. But nickels are still good and lawful money at theatre box offices, so I am going to get this discussion down to a level where I can hope to add my nickel's worth to it. Here then is a nickel. It's a new one and made in Canada. This Canadian nickel has around its edge in Morse code dots and dashes the admirable wartime slogan: "We win when we work together." This is a mighty good slo 31