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Here is a vote in approval of the foreign policy of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull...
With grave, careworn Cordell Hull the reason is partly age (69 years j. Buried in the paper-shuffling details of his mountainous task, he very often does not realize what goes on in the intrigue-ridden old halls of the rococo Department. This rough judgment, made solely in the blazing exigencies of wartime, and without regard to the saintly Tennesseean's years of patient, farseeing service, is current in Washington...
...President's real defense choice; that he wanted to make Douglas Secretary of State, at the head of the War Cabinet-but feared public outcry. Last week the rumor was revived, and astute Sir Will-mott Lewis, veteran correspondent of the London Times, reported that Mr. Hull might be made Chief Justice, for the retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in June has been rumored persistently...
There was a cheer from the crowd. Behind the President sat the notables-Secretary Hull, Viscount Halifax, Jesse Jones, impassive as dignitaries must be. But testy old Carter Glass let the left side of his mouth curve ferociously, as it does when he is pleased...
...adults. Fees for lessons in voice, violin, piano begin at 50?, are shaved or even waived for the needy. Like most settlement schools, Greenwich House is less interested in training professional musicians than in teaching music as an avocation. But it is proud-just as Chicago's Hull House is of Benny Goodman and Manhattan's Music School Settlement is of Pianist Ray Lev-of having produced one professional comer: Dante Fiorillo, Pulitzer and Guggenheim-winning (four times) composer...