Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a rehearsal of the Portland, Ore. stadium Philharmonic orchestra, Cleveland's Dr. Artur Rodzinski went to spend a day with his favorite animals: goats. On the way out he discussed them. Excerpt: "Goats are the sweetest pets, better than a dog. No, no, no, only the gentleman goat smells bad. You must put him in a pen half a mile away from the lady goats...
...Norman Ritchie) of the Boston Post, more blunt, drew a chortling Franklin Roosevelt unctuously declining a third-term cup of cocoa in the New Deal cafe (see cut). ¶ Recovering with a bounce from his primary defeat, Representative Maury Maverick of Texas wrote a piece for the Philadelphia Record. Excerpt: "Calling all progressives! Calling all liberals! Stop your telegrams telling me how sad it was that I got beat. . . . The job we have ahead of us now is not to let any more get beat. Let me be a lesson to you." ¶ After 35 years of married life, Linda...
...Many of the colleges set up emergency first-aid units for treatment of wounded, not all of whom were soldiers mangled in action. Excerpt from a letter written by Dr. Robert Wilson at University Hospital, Nanking: "We are getting a large number of women from 16 to 30, most of them nice looking girls, who are ridden with venereal disease from frequent raping...
Therefore, concluded the Department of Justice, the best thing to do was to force separation of production and distribution from exhibition. As he promised when he took office in March, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold carefully explained his aims. Excerpt: "It is the belief of the Department of Justice that certain rearrangements must be made in the moving-picture industry in order to maintain competitive conditions in the future. Those rearrangements require a more constructive effort than mere prosecution for past practices. . . . Under this policy a lawsuit should be considered as the beginning of co-operation between the courts...
...Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there can be no good reason for going on and maiming honest people just to eke out a living. To me general practice was just a life of mayhem and murder. ... I am not at all afraid of Death. Death is an old friend...