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...year income level who are untouched by insipidity, depravity, or both. This week the far less satiric Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) contributed another long, episodic novel depicting some unsavory doings among the best people. Since Recapture the MOON, has a central character who is fundamentally decent, and since it ends happily, its picture of social decay is not so thoroughgoing as Huxley's, but its moral atmosphere is still distinctly gamey...
...exhibited until a few days ago in the public galleries. . . . Whole railroad trains would not have been enough to clear this rubbish out of the German museums. This has yet to be done and will be done very shortly. . . . One can say that everything that is holy to a decent German necessarily had to be trampled in the mud here...
...dear Alben:- ". . . Since the untimely death of our majority leader I had hoped, with you, that at least until his funeral services had been held, a decent respect for his memory would have deferred discussion of political and legislative matters...
...death not to go to the funeral at Little Rock was not liked by a good many Congressmen. They said nothing publicly, but when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message to Alben," not only taking up politics immediately but accusing others of not observing a decent mourning period, a good deal of Congressional blood boiled. It was not cooled by what Senators took to be an oblique effort to boost Senator Barkley as Senator Robinson's successor (see col. 2). Instead of healing, the Democratic split widened sorely. The death of Robinson had become not only...
...rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania for the Democrats in 1932. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to take notice of him. He was made Minister to Austria. Two years later Mr. Guffey & friends called back Minister Earle, still without any political savoir-faire and even without the ability to make a decent speech, to nominate him for Governor of Pennsylvania...