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Unimpressed were the President's Civil Service critics with his argument that the fault lay with Congress rather than with the White House, with his implication that he was powerless to get Congress to do his bidding. Wrote Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times...
EYELESS IN GAZA-Aldous Huxley- Harper ($2.50). The literary career of Aldous Huxley has been marked with many guideposts. It has not been his fault if critics have been unable to trace the stages of his development. At the age of 41 he has produced some 24 books, including novels, plays, poems, anthologies, travel books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when...
...some 1,000,000 barrels production annually. As London's imperial weekly Great Britain and the East philosophically remarked: "It was a disappointment to some that the concession for petroleum in Bahrein was awarded to a non-British company, but assuredly that was not the Sheik's fault. His Highness already knows, but in this country [Britain] he should be made doubly aware, that Great Britain is grateful to him for his cooperation...
...reason for the San Francisco earthquake, as all cinemaddicts have long been well aware, was not a geological fault but rather certain unfortunate conditions in the city's night life. Before the Legion of Decency started, there was generally supposed to be white slavery, opium and hatchet-work in Chinatown. San Francisco, bringing the earthquake up to date, makes it plain that its real cause lay in the fact that Clark Gable did not say his prayers at night. Gable is Blackie Norton, owner of a notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father...
...fault of the investment banker if, due to the fact that a bond was brought out at a time when bond prices generally were very high, as is the case at present, the market price at some time during the life of the security declines. . . . The banker does not make prices. Nor is the banker responsible for the high level at which investment securities are selling today. The Government itself, by the various ways in which it is contributing toward easy money, is one of the responsible factors, and when subsequently prices drop-as they are bound...