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...would be cynical to suppose that this Labor-loving New Deal Governor has not been genuinely sympathetic with the masses in this one-industry area, who lost their livelihoods when Depression and the rise of new fuels shut down most anthracite collieries. It would be naive to suppose that the ambitious young Governor has been unaware of the political and civil dynamite represented by the bootleggers and the citizenry whose prosperity rests on their outlaw profits. At his side last week stumped the "King of the Bootleggers," 33-year-old Earl Humphrey, who claims 15.000 'leggers in his Independent...
...Warsaw last week everyone recalled that the Treaty of 1921, now revived and strengthened, was based on a Clemenceau conception of Russia as a politically infectious area around which should be drawn a "sanitary cordon." In Bucharest the immensely tall, Mongoloid statesman who in a struggle of many years weakened this conception and secured mutual diplomatic recognition of each other by the Soviet Union and the Rumanian Kingdom (TIME, June 18, 1934) was M. Nicholas Titulescu. His influence recently waned, he was forced to resign as Foreign Minister. An invalid on the French Riviera, he has claimed that secret agents...
...Radiomen's term for a station low in wattage, listening area and prestige...
...Sing?, FTP's "musical comedy revue" had been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most previous amateur or Federal drama. When it was good it was very good, when it was bad it was awful...
...masters of the Renaissance. In this style the painting is done directly on the damp, freshly plastered wall. Since the plaster remains damp only for about fourteen hours, the artist must work quickly and must plan his work carefully day by day. He must plaster only as large an area as he can complete in a single day's work. The pigment employed in the "true fresco" technique is mixed with slaked lime and water, while the retouching of the various seams made in the plaster is done in pigment mixed with yolk...