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...mile swing through the Southwest. With him were Senator Joe Robinson, RFChairman Jesse Jones, Senator Hattie Caraway. Mrs. Roosevelt was to board the train at Memphis. Announced purpose of this "nonpolitical" trip was to attend and make speeches at three historical celebrations-Arkansas' Century of Statehood at Little Rock, the Texas Centennial at Dallas, the dedication of a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes...
Arriving in Little Rock at 5:30 p. m., the President was motored directly to its unfinished Centennial Stadium, found it pack-jammed with 25,000 people. Facing microphones which carried his voice over the same nationwide hookups which were to broadcast the words of Herbert Hoover at Cleveland an hour later, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the first of a series of set speeches using the events of long-dead history as parables on current politics...
...Milwaukee; Burlington; Chicago & North Western; Rock Island; Great Northern; Illinois Central; Soo Line. Chicago Great Western has since dropped...
Meanwhile in Gibraltar last week sad little Haile Selassie disembarked from the cruiser Capetown, waited quietly in the Rock Hotel for the liner Orford to take him to England. The British Government avoided unnecessary trouble with Italy by announcing that the bearded Lion of Judah would travel to England incognito, would receive no royal honors. For Saturday breakfast Haile Selassie looked with disfavor at a plate of kippered herring, called instead for bacon & eggs, U. S. style...
Robert Frost should be persona grata to two opposing parties: Yankees who never touch poetry and poetry-bibbers who shy at Yankees. For Robert Frost has a foot in both camps. New Englanders who pride themselves on their conservative shrewdness and rock-bound individualism think they recognize him as one of themselves; and poets know he is a poet. His prosiest lines are often lifted into verse by some piece of sly wit or canny wisdom, and at its best his poetry is as strong and simple as his Vermont landscape...