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...Secretary Wallace has been between two fires. Mr. Tugwell is an old friend but the pressure upon the Department of Agriculture has been such that some of the Tugwell doctrines have met with considerable resistance, making it difficult for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Department of Agriculture to function harmoniously...
...good news; more will be heard when the tangible results of the Soviet Recognition become known, but for the present to hear of no fresh border outbursts or inter-capital spats is reassuring. As for Germany, the only inference is that Herr Goebbels' organization is pursuing its censorial function with increasing efficiency; the penalty of this tactic is, of course, the added stimulus it gives to the Non-Nordic imaginations. CASTOR...
Though the contests with Yale still occupy the dominant position on Harvard athletic schedules, they are no longer the sole aim of Varsity programs. It has been recognized that the main function of all the games, aside from the financial one, is to provide instruction and competition for accomplished athletes. There ought, accordingly, to be a revision of the present unjust arrangement which permits a man to go without reward even though he has participated in all the games but that with Yale. Such a step is particularly necessary in those sports which do not permit of extensive last minute...
After the Cabinet dinner at the White House last week President and Mrs. Roosevelt led their guests from the State dining-room to the Blue Room where 250 other guests had gathered for the first big formal function of the new Administration (see p. 7). All official Washington was there, shaking hands, expanding under Mrs. Roosevelt's informal hospitality. Fat little Maxim Litvinoff grinned his toothless grin oftener than usual. He was going upstairs with the President afterward to receive the papers which would formally seal the recognition of Soviet Russia...
...unique as the House of Steinway and its position in the piano industry* is the function, all unadvertised, which Henry Junge exercises in Washington. Presidents, unlike kings, may not favor any one commercial house but the White House has to have a piano and in 1902 when Theodore Roosevelt accepted the $18,000 Steinway Gold Grand "in behalf of the nation," the die was cast. White House musicales began soon after. Mrs. Taft, who taught at the Cincinnati College of Music before she married, asked the Steinways to put them on. They looked around their office for some one both...