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...disliked "death sentence" when applied to his holding-company bill. He felt that "court-packing plan" was unjust to his attempted reform of the Federal judiciary. "Purge" he hated; it smacked of Stalin and Hitler. By last week a new word annoyed him: "appeasement," as applied to his big push to restore Business confidence. "Appeasement" sounded as though he had done something to Business for which he now sought to apologize...
...Sullivan holding its own for about five minutes. It was almost six minutes before Tony Mischo could tally the first basket of the evening, and this seemed to serve only as a single to start the Red and Blue attack rolling. They began to hit on all cylinders with "push 'em up" Tony Mischo and Harlan Gustafson leading the way to a 23 to 12 halftime margin...
...back up Harry Hopkins, spearhead of a big new Administration push to stimulate Business (see p. 451), Franklin Roosevelt caused identic letters to be released at week's end to "My Dear John" Lewis and "Dear Bill" Green, asking them to appoint committees to achieve "peace with honor" between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. "within the early months of the new year." Bill named a committee forthwith, but John at week's end was still thinking it over...
Poles, Dogs, Germans, Italians. Not bound by the hampering views of an intelligent electorate, the Polish oligarchy does about what it pleases, and while this may make trouble for the electorate, it also gives Poland's dictatorial neighbors pause. It is part of Germany's push-to-the-east program to unite all the Ukrainians. But autonomist movements among the 3,200,000* Ukrainians in the southeast of Poland can be and have been suppressed by Warsaw with little regard for civil rights...
Culbert Levy Olson, California's first Democratic Governor in 40 years, thrust a $35,000 jeweled key into the lock of a gilded miniature Golden Gate bridge one morning last week and, with a symbolic push, proudly opened 1939's first world's fair, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Few minutes later, to the jealous joy of Florida, Franklin Roosevelt radioed his national benediction from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior...