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...Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises and the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception...
Moving from fullbacks to halfbacks, the element of uncertainty comes in with the question whether anybody is going to improve sufficiently to take the place of Carr's regular starting trio, which is good but never all-American. In the forward line, there is still a search for the winning combination. Latest reports seemed to be that Carr had it in the Dartmouth and Tufts games, but Princeton may mean another story...
...school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind up to. In Double Wedding the melee is Charlie's wedding to Irene, staged in his trailer home, which turns into a wedding to Margit...
...excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many critics more successful in the first part of the artist's purpose: "To subdue every element-drawing, form and substance-" than in the second: "To achieve a reality from within rather than from without...
LaFollette, a close friend and admirer of Roosevelt, and John Lewis are both men whose hold upon even the progressive element alone in the United States is too shaky to make them serious contenders. There remains but one man of growing national importance:--Fiorello La Guardia. A progressive, pro-labor, a disciple of Franklon Roosevelt and a man of unchallenged integrity, LaGuardia stands to win everything if he is returned to office as Mayor of New York. 1940 will most likely see Henry Wallace facing Vandenburg and if eight years of Roosevelt magic proves too much...