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Miss Mollie went to the White House to tea, dressed in a new plum-colored dress. She was so overwhelmed by meeting Mrs. Roosevelt that she could not remember what the First Lady had said to her, besides, "Why, I read about you in the paper this morning. . . ." Miss Moilie had other little adventures...
...William Henry Hastie, whom Franklin Roosevelt sent to the District Court of the racially scrambled Virgin Islands (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937). Judge Hastie resigned this year to become dean of Howard University's law school (Washington, D. C.). Last week came a second dispensation of this politically potent plum. Senator James Michael Slattery of Illinois, who needs the big Negro vote on Chicago's South Side for re-election next year to the seat he inherited from the late "J. Ham" Lewis, got it for his former assistant on the Illinois Commerce Commission: dapper, long-faced Herman Emmons...
...killed by a Polish chauffeur, to neighboring Marienburg, East Prussia, where his grave waited, Nazi formations lined the road, saluted the remains of their latest "martyr." Poles breathed easier when Fiihrer Hitler's gesture was confined to flowers. German newspapers played down the incident. The Danzig plum was not yet ripe, so eager Danzig Nazis must wait, perhaps "until autumn," for Anschluss with the Reich. Said Danzig Nazi Leader Helmuth Andres: Danzigers must remain quiet, even in the face of the worst Polish provocation. It is our responsibility not to force the Fiihrer in any way in the tempo...
...important and meaty modern works for chorus and orchestra were given first U. S. hearings. The first was a smoldering, wrath-&-judgment Old-Testament oratorio, Watchman, What of the Night? by James Gutheim Heller, rabbi of Cincinnati's aged Plum Street Temple. A chorus of 600 children helped Soprano Helen Jepson sing the second: a complicated Magnificat by German-born Hermann Hans Wetzler, who once played the organ in Manhattan's Trinity Church...
...main pressure has come from Central Square organizations which really want the housing project to go through. Mayor Lyons apparently is blocking the bill because it has, as one of the conditions of the grant, federal control of the project, and the Mayor is used to handing out political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign the petition and to prove to the Mayor that they want the housing project, and that they want it without plum trees. With the mayoralty election coming up next fall, it is hard to conceive...