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...magazine section on how the State Department is run; Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. railroad adviser to Reconstruction Finance Corp., an article in the New York Times on the new securities bill; Louis McHenry Howe, Secretary to the President, a radio interview on budget-balancing. Secretary Howe con- cluded his broadcast with a half-sobbing account of how some woman had wanted to name her kittens after him but he had lost her letter-and, oh, he was so terribly upset about those poor little kittens. ¶"I love the U. S. Navy more than any other branch of the Government...
...College of Fine Arts, oldest of its kind in the U. S., was celebrating its 60th anniversary. It had never given a degree to a nonprofessional, but at last it decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker Rainey and Budget Director Douglas were to speak at Amherst alumni reunions. Busy Mrs. Roosevelt officiated at two commencements last fortnight, at Malcolm Gordon School (Garrison, N. Y.) and Todhunter in Manhattan where she used to teach. Last week she received an LL.D. from...
Reporter Hill's new job is to write a daily editorial entitled "The Human Side of the News" (same title as that of his Columbia broadcast) for Hearst evening papers, in the space hitherto filled by Claude Gernade Bowers, new Ambassador to Spain...
...other members of the "Brain Trust." Their White House instructions were to combine in one measure a broad program for public works to make new jobs and the "partnership" idea for Federal supervision of industrial production, prices, wages and working hours as enunciated by the President in his broadcast fortnight ago. The bill would be the Administration's substitute for the crude null and minimum-wage legislation pending in Congress...
...citizens edged closer to their radios last Sunday as they heard this familiar greeting from the President of the U. S. For the second time Franklin Roosevelt was "reporting" to the country from the White House. Eight weeks prior when "the country was dying by inches" his first broadcast on the banking crisis had been a historic success. His second attempt to clear and steer the public mind on issues of state produced a popular reaction no less favorable. President Roosevelt's speech, simple and sympathetic, was more than a review of his two months in office, more than...