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...83rd birthday, unreconstructed Senator Carter Glass, asked whether he approved of the President's defense program, croaked fiercely that he thought the United States Navy should be sent "over to blast hell out of Germany...
...Sunset. In the midst of his uncouth designs on women who are merely trying to retire, he announces: "I usually go to sleep as soon as my feet touch the pillow." Among the less comprehensible" features of the performance are a song which compares love to heaven, hell and a Turkish delight, and another called April in Harrisburg which may have been intended as a parody on Vernon Duke's April in Paris but is played absolutely straight. Whether the company intended them or not, the show is almost solid with laughs...
...Chicago and learnedly discussed The Family in Wartime. The delegates were not prepared to bet a plugged nickel on the family's immediate prospects. Already, declared Professor Willard Waller of Columbia University, although the U. S. was not at war, the national-defense program had begun to raise hell with U. S. families. He ticked off wartime dangers: > Disruption of relations between parents and children...
...January 1939, with no apparent hell-raising intent, good Mr. Logan introduced an eighth version of his old bill to set up uniform standards of procedure for quasi-judicial Federal agencies. He had long felt that bureaucracy's big ears needed pinning back. Franklin Roosevelt, acting on similar motives, set up a committee in February 1939. under Law Expert Dean Acheson, to study the same problem. The Brookings Institution pondered; bar associations brooded...
...they could still make it hot for submarines. Also they were invaluable for training. Each one was a ship where a young lieutenant commander could learn the unforgettable lessons of his first command. On each one of these pitching, rocking sea horses, bluejackets could learn the strange, good-humored, hell-for-leather technique and attitude of the destroyerman; young officers, at duties on deck and below, or hanging to the overhead in wardroom bull sessions, could become Navy-the good, hard...