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...minor sensation by crying: "How can we continue the present state without completely exhausting the Treasury? Such a program [of relief] will not only exhaust the Treasury but will exhaust the capacity of the taxpayer to pay further." But the pump-priming debate was soon drowned out by a poll-priming wrangle...
...Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...
...Significance. Depending on their sympathies, observers regarded the poll-priming furor as either: 1) the beginning of a hard-boiled Party purge which by 1940 might result in a serious Democratic schism; or 2) the pained but pointless howling of anti-New Dealers who, if driven into the wilderness, would have no other place...
...elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners about "art" which had no fully-dressed pioneers or Indians in it, only some foreign-looking nudes and inappropriate deep-sea fishes...
...gauge of strength. The Party looks upon itself as a hard and pervasive core within a vastly larger body. Having recently embraced a program so broad that no liberal citizen could oppose it in toto, Communists now claim that a vast majority of citizens favor it. For instance, a poll of 418 authors discloses that only California's Gertrude Atherton espouses Francisco Franco's cause. Communists are pleased, for they espouse the cause of Loyalist Spain. President Roosevelt frowns vaguely at the Fascist dictatorships. Communists are pleased. C. I. O. industrial unionism grows apace. Communists rejoice...