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...Brownlow Committee on Public Administration. He plans to absorb 100 commissions, bureaus, and agencies into twelve departments, including two new cabinet posts, so that he may keep his finger on all with greater ease. The White House management will be enlarged by six executive assistants, with "a passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power in the President, as the channels of authority to the twelve departments will be cleared of every obstacle and direct responsibility to the White House emphasized. To counteract this tendency, Mr. Roosevelt...
...when conventionality was the rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows a young woman entering life under social disadvantages, which she overcomes in the end by returning...
...happened to many a man before now to find himself beginning to fall in love with another man's wife. That is the moment of critical decision and the right decision is that they should cease to meet before the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict between love and duty. That decision has often been taken by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is reinforced by the glamor of the throne, the moral obligation is more urgent for that reason. "Thirdly, let us remember that any kind of love which...
...ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged man, supposedly sick, in a swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot and J. J., seriously ill, backs the show with Norma, still unable to sing or dance, playing the lead...
...trial in Vicksburg last week the sheriff and deputy were witnesses for both prosecution and defense. They testified that the defendant had done his killing "in an insane moment brought about by a fit of passion." After deliberating six minutes, the jury acquitted Louis Mize...