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...They began by rattling President Roosevelt's new powers like a bag of tools," smiled Sir Josiah. "They hoped he might never have to use them, but he has had to take them out of the bag one after the other, and now they are get ting a bit scared about the more extreme instruments. . . . There is a suspicion that the NRA is putting up costs and not increasing purchasing power. ... In all countries except Russia the mainspring of employment is profit. Keep profits in sight and you go on. . . . Production in the United States has now fallen...
When he wrote "The Last Round-Up" he tried something different. He used a gentle, monotonous rhythm to suggest the easy gait of the cowboy's horse. He broke the lyrics with instrumental interludes for the rider to get his breath, or, in the evening, to strum a bit on his guitar. He violated all Tin-Pan Alley tradition when he let his song ramble moodily along, instead of limiting himself to a cut-&-dried 32-bar chorus. But his publishers were not impressed when he gave them his manuscript two years ago, a rude affair with a simple...
...looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets its humdrum job and dons academic garb. It did so last week to celebrate, a bit ahead of time, its 150th birthday. Meeting in Chancellors' Hall in Albany in their 69th convocation, the Regents elected Vice Chancellor James Byrne, Manhattan lawyer, to succeed the late Chancellor Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, longtime managing editor of the New York Sun. They gave a Litt. D. degree...
...shambling Billy Hill is a bit befogged by the song's raging success. Most satisfying to him is the fact that in the Southwest honest-injun cowboys, who rarely sing cowboy songs nowadays, are singing "The Last Round-Up" and singing it as if it belonged to them...
...announcement by the Student Council that it will investigate the possibilities of abolishing the November and April Hour examinations comes as a welcome bit of news. It not only signifies that the Council itself is awake to a problem that has been troubling the University for several years, but that the new President himself, as well as Dean Hanford, is not afraid to question at once the merits of an institution that was left untouched by his predecessor...