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...dispatches from Germany that observers there were certain he was not anti-Semitic and that I was sure he did not wish his statements to be interpreted as a reflection on either world Jewry or Polish Jews ... I do not think it was the function of the correspondents to report that unfortunately General Freddie had his foot in his mouth the day of the fateful conference...
...sets up a permanent council of three full-time economic advisers to the President, at salaries of $15,000 a year. Their job is to help the Administration and the Congress decide what the Government should (and should not) do to help the U.S. economy function smoothly and prosperously...
Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...
About 300 first-term Freshmen will be ineligible to vote or hold office. Representatives of men who have just entered the College will be chosen at a later date after students have become better acquainted. The main function of the committee will be to make arrangements for the Freshman Jubilee, to be held the last week in April...
...since Jan. 17 ended by drowning all opposition. New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, who had tried to force a vote on establishing a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, finally gave up. The 24-day filibuster triumphantly ended, the highest legislative chamber in the land was free to function once again...