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This week's [TIME, July 11] make-up (technical term unknown) was most pleasing. Delighted with the elimination of Religion. Being a person of no discrimination, I read from cover to cover and always waded painfully with boredom & bewilderment, thru Religion. The relief of not having to read it...
Less pleasing news about wheat was carried to the White House. The Secretary informed the President that so big a wheat crop is coming up that the U. S. Treasury must lend growers perhaps as much as $100,000,000 to carry over their surplus. The Adjustment Act requires loans...
Not so pleasing to the ears of a President who faces elections in the fall was Lord Stamp's remark:
Since April, Premier Edouard Daladier has ruled France in a manner more pleasing to the French Right than that of the preceding Popular Front cabinets. A Radical Socialist, for two uninterrupted years Minister of National Defense, M. Daladier's strong inclinations to please the Right have often conflicted with...
But on the Pennsylvania election he was more loquacious. "The result in Pennsylvania is rather extraordinary," he commented, "but very pleasing to every Republican. It is a repudiation of the Administration."