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...principal arguments of the affirmative were that women would be able to express their personalities more freely if freed from the dictates of fashion. Then clothes would be better made and last longer; whereas the time now spent in shopping would be devoted to more constructive activity. Mass production of dresses would be displaced by the couturier system as in Paris, with resulting better fitting clothes...
Premier Negrin offered publicly to mediate the war on three conditions: 1) that Spain would be freed of foreign influence (meaning Italians and Germans); 2) that a Government be established through a plebiscite (meaning the probable displacement of Generalissimo Franco); 3) that the liquidation of the war be accompanied without persecution so that all Spaniards could join in reconstruction. On the other hand, Generalissimo Franco, answering inquiries from London and Paris, was reported to have demanded unconditional surrender. Despite the crescendo of peace reports, it seemed more than likely that Dr. Negrin and his loyal ministers would soon transfer...
...Communists, the Socialist-Laborites are incorrigibly consistent in refusing to make any temporary concessions to capitalism in the hope of long-range gains. Last week the Socialist-Laborites achieved the absolute in consistency. The party's Weekly People printed an open letter to Labor's recently freed Hero Tom Mooney...
...respected past, a lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend because, he said, he knew the tragedy had resulted from Duncan's hard work and business worries...
...Freed by his fellowship, leathery Edward Weston has covered 25,000 miles of California and New Mexico on sorties lasting two and three weeks from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...