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...Contralto Anderson's manager tried to book Constitution Hall for a concert in April, D. A. R. officials said they were sorry but the hall was taken. When alternative dates were suggested, the D. A. R. frostily replied that all the dates were taken. Sympathetic protests began to pour in from all sides: last week they reached peak proportions. Among the most impressive: that of the American Union of Democracy, in which Walter Damrosch, Deems Taylor and a Who's Who of prominent musicians. churchmen and journalists hoped "that this amazing action reflects the opinion of some irresponsible...
...Dealism-you shoot one cow, milk the other, and then pour the milk down the sink. -From the Christian Science Monitor
...under New Dealism you shoot one cow, milk the other and then pour the milk down the sink...
...blame for blocking the Federal flood control program in Vermont. Franklin Roosevelt sniffed that Governor Aiken would not have to spend his $67,500 fighting fund: if he would rather have States' rights than Federal flood control, all right, the War Department would scratch Vermont off its list, pour its dollars and its dams into other States...
...Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last big Franco offensive last March. Such an action would, of course, anger Dictator Mussolini (see p. 18), would be just the ingredient needed to produce a first-class European crisis...