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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Japanese planes sank the U. S. gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River, Franklin Roosevelt summoned Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the White House, asked in no uncertain terms to have Japan's sacred Son of Heaven informed of the feelings of the President of the U. S. C. Major social event of the Presidential week was the Gridiron Club Banquet, at which the President's remarks are, by strict rule, completely off the record. Sharpest of the six skits written by Washington newspapermen concerned Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the Supreme Court who, unlike Chief...
...effects, Hugh Herbert, and a strong dose of Hollywood's kind-hearts-are-more-than-coronets philosophy. All this tends to make the picture somewhat confusing until the fuller significance of the thing is grasped; it is an answer, almost a rebuke, to James Hilton; it shows in no uncertain terms how dreadfully dull Shangri-la would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would return to the World...
...public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty and drama. For a World's Fair is. no matter what the brochures and prospecti say about it, a big show; it creates an illusion, and it has to be emotional, dramatic, and possibly dyed with the deep but uncertain dyes of mysticism. The walls of most World's Fairs bear the imprint of the cloven hoof...
Cause. Until last week the cause of measles was uncertain. Bacteriologists for years suspected streptococci, the great family of germs responsible for scarlet fever, septic sore throat, erysipelas, childbed fever. But no one ever saw the germ of measles. Therefore bacteriologists tossed the subject into that catchpot of medical conjecture labeled VIRUS. Only means of immunity which proved effective was hypodermic injection of serum from the blood of people convalescing from measles; or inoculations of the nasal secretions of measles victims in the first stage of the disease...
...father was a professional man, his education includes college training in liberal arts and now he feels the need of more knowledge of economics to do his job properly. Nevertheless, he would again select journalism, would prefer to remain a Washington correspondent, even though his hours are uncertain, his home office is constantly badgering him with queries for which he must scurry around to find answers, his estimate of Congressmen's calibre is not too high, and he must occasionally run errands and lobby for his boss. Forced by competitive conditions to pool his efforts with fellow correspondents...