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...essence of the New Deal that the Constitution must go in order to give men in Washington the power to make America over, to destroy the American way of life and establish a foreign way of life in its place. . . . They have the pattern of their planned economy before them. . . . Our homes, our communities, our jobs and our businesses are to be directed from Washington. The profit motive is to be eliminated. Business as we know it is to disappear...
Thus boldly Franklin Roosevelt set out to ride the whirlwind which this year has blown Nebraska's party lines into the craziest political pattern in the U. S. Characteristic was the discovery of a roving New York Times correspondent who inquired last week into the political sentiments of some of Senator Norris' supporters, quickly uncovered an anti-Roosevelt Democrat, an anti-Landon Republican...
...final pattern of world currency stabilization, this week's international deal set no ratio between the dollar, the franc, and the pound, left that to be developed by the course of trade. Any other country with a stabilization fund and a desire to end international currency fluctuation was welcome to join Secretary Morgenthau's party. As for the ordinary citizen of France, of Britain or of the U. S., this week's gold pact changed his monetary routine...
...teams. The knack which recent Minnesota teams have developed of producing touchdown plays at the proper moment, seems supernatural only because it is supremely utilitarian. Uram's 75-yd. run last week was actually the ultimate refinement of a well-stated and thoroughly rehearsed process which became the pattern of Minnesota football when Coach Bernard William Bierman took it in hand four years...
...death of a tuberculous writer in Year Before Last, described life in homosexual circles in Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works but dealing with an Austrian doctor and an American girl whose love affair was entangled in the affairs of the Austrian Nazis...