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...This Administration . . .," wrote he last week, "is too often undiscriminating in its interest in the novel, too likely to accept the new merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person...
...direct mention of the Tydings bill. Said this onetime soldier: "The past two years in Puerto Rico have been free of serious trouble. Too much publicity has been given to the assassination of Colonel Riggs. . . . The relations between private employers and employes are of the best. There is no rift between Capital and Labor on the island; there never has been and there never will...
...invented electric fish nets. The scheme is to lower a network of wires into the water from the fishing boats, pass a current through the water from wire to wire, creating an electric wall which the fish will not pass. The catch is brought in by opening a rift in the electric wall through which the fish swin into an ordinary...
...Housing Administrator James A. Moffett's presence at Warm Springs was readily found. Mr. Moffett is a Warm Springs Foundation trustee. "We trusteed and trusteed and trusteed," reported the President after the board meeting. In private with Trustee Moffett, the President put the finishing touches to patching up the rift over housing between Messrs. Moffett and Ickes...
Lately Rio de Janeiro has buzzed with talk of a rift between President Vargas and his right-hand man. When the President made an appointment against his wishes, Senhor Aranha resigned from his treasury post, was persuaded to reconsider. Probably his standing at home will depend on what he does for huge Brazil's huge coffee output in the trade treaty negotiations pending in Washington. It was Strong Man Aranha who guided the Departamento Nacional do Café, whose wholesale destruction of coffee has brought Brazil something of a boom...