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Birthday. Gustaf V, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends (popularly known as "Mr. G"), 80; in Stockholm. During 20 hours of feting, he reviewed his troops and air fleet, assigned a popularly subscribed birthday present of 5,000,000 kroner ($1,250,000) to combat infantile paralysis and rheumatic diseases...
Because of this public deafness, contemporary composers have been in danger of turning into mutes. To combat this deafness and muteness, societies of intrepid and hard-eared listeners have been formed, who sit through concerts of contemporary music almost without flinching. Chief among these devoted bands is the International Society for Contemporary Music, which last week opened its 16th annual festival in London...
...Clinchy last week laid down a five-point program to combat religious intolerance: i) Maintain the U. S. separation of Church & State. 2) Maintain the fact of the sovereignty of God over the State. 3) Watch lest the churches become too rich. 4) Develop the conference idea among religious citizens. 5) "Religious people, before all others, should be aware that the best guard against Nazi, Communist and Fascist propaganda is to produce an American social order better than these can promise...
WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
...Government Broadcasting Bill (TIME, May 16) than the whole Congressional swamp sang out for radio legislation. As soon as Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced War, Navy and Interior Department endorsement for the Celler Bill, indicated that plans for a Government station to combat Fascist propaganda in South America had White House backing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman and Senator William E. Borah added their endorsements...