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First significant stop of the Presidential special was at Charleston, S.C. There shortly after midnight, General Johnson Hagood, recently ousted from his Texas command because he spoke of WPA "stage money" (TIME, March 9), boarded the train by previous invitation from the President. Next afternoon they conferred. After a two-hour session, the President announced that General Hagood would have a three-month leave of absence. Meanwhile in Washington Major General Frank Parker was ordered to Texas to take over General Hagood's old command...
...this point the command again rings in memory: "Get wisdom, but with all thy getting, get understanding." In the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth, the area of man's knowledge vastly increased. Jove's lightning, once more mysterious than the sun-spots, now illuminates homes, irons shirts and cooks toast. At 150 miles an hour man rides the air more easily than stage-horses could plod the ground at fifteen. The X-ray pierces steel, and the radio causes a whisper to be heard in five continents. But the alphabet and the multiplication-table are unchanged...
General Hagood's remedy for existing ills seems very sensible and constructive, but, of course, the whole affair will only serve to tear down confidence in our Congress and our Army high command instead of serving the worthy purpose which it should have served...
...first to strive, without discrimination of sex or race, affluence or position, to produce not merely an intelligentsia but a cultivated nation"); 4) a bureaucracy manned largely by unpaid volunteers; 5) "the vocation of leadership" supplied by the Communist Party; 6) the cult of science (unlike those "in command of most other states, the administrators in the Moscow Kremlin genuinely believe in their professed faith. And their professed faith is in science"); 7) "anti-godism"; 8) the emergence of a new morality ("the recognition of a universal individual indebtedness" to society). These features, in the Webbs' opinion...
...Boheme in which the heroine was Grace Moore making her first Manhattan opera appearance since 1932. Since then, with One Night of Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind. Airplanes circled her ship, flying streamers inscribed with "WELCOME, GRACE MOORE...