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...Navy Secretary Frank Knox and War Secretary Henry Stimson wrote a joint letter to the Council of State Governors. Obviously, they said, 48 individual States could not handle the complex job of polling servicemen: "The War & Navy Departments do not advocate or oppose any particular voting legislation. . . . [But] the Services are unable effectively to administer the diverse procedures of 48 States as to 11,000,000 servicemen all over the world in primary, special and general elections...
...received in Boston was steadier and my associations more regular and calmer than they would have been in Spain, but there was a terrible moral disinheritance involved, an emotional and intellectual chill, a pettiness and practicality of outlook and ambition, which I should not have encountered amid the complex passions and intrigues of a Spanish environment...
Just what he's trying to do, I don't know. His compositions and orchestrations become more and more complex, and he is turning to the so called modern school of composition, retaining, at the same time, much of the flavor and even some of the form of jazz. The result is a unique hybrid, which nonetheless comes too close to Gershwin, Grofo, and Morton Could to suit me. I want my Ellington and I want it straight...
...Complex Wave. Craig said he had eliminated the scanning problem by means of a new device which would make it possible to record all 240,000 divisions of an image simultaneously instead of in sequence. His device consists of 240,000 electronic "pickup loops," each designed to record one division of the image. The result, he said, would be a complex wave of 240,000 elements, which could be broadcast with little power on a narrow wave band and would be unscrambled by a scanning device in the receiver. Though none of Craig's audience wholly understood his proposals...
...bureau workers, wives driven crazy while waiting for their husbands to come home from bars, lonely Government girls and maladjusted clerks: Government and private agencies now provide opportunities for psychiatric consultation. "Of course," says Dr. Overholser. "psychiatrists can't go about asking every lonely Government girl how her complex is today." But Government employes have learned to consult psychiatrists before everything turns black. "A girl who can't find a satisfactory place to live or who can't find a date is now advised before she reaches the poison-taking stage...