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...neither external nor internal debt. Since the death of its bloody, carnal 27-year Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez five years ago, it has also been fortunate in its leader. Like little Guatemala's Jorge Ubico tall, scholarly President Eleazar Lopez Contreras has given the nation a decent, liberal, reformist Government. His term ends next April. Constitutionally, he cannot succeed himself. His people find it hard to imagine that he would attempt to do so by any other means. Fortnight ago elections in 13 of the 20 States gave a great victory to the Bloque Bolivariano coalition which...
Secretary Early was not on the campaign train when President Roosevelt started out again. Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election. Besides committing a first-rate political blunder, he had misbehaved in a way no decent citizen should. But for once newsmen were sorry for him, blaming it all on his hot temper...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia: "... A shameful campaign for a shameless candidate..... There may be such a thing as a . . decent utility man, but I have never met him. . . . Some men have their hair mussed because their brains are working, others because the photographers are working...
...case of an English victory there is at least the possibility of a decent international regime," whereas in the event of a Nazi victory there is none at all, Professor Michael Karpovich concluded last night during an address on the differences between English and German imperialism, sponsored by the Student Defense League...
...manner in which Rouault's paintings were first exhibited is diametrically opposed to decent aesthetic standards; a work of art has no functional value when--as was the case Monday night--it occupies a forgotten place on the wall of a room containing some of the finest stuffed shirts in the community. "How like Cezanne," they exclaim, as they bob up and down within their protective layers of starch. Perhaps the following quotations will better illustrate my point. The first two are from the remarkably fine catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. Writing of Rouault, the author states, "he would arrive...