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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt summoned House Democratic and Republican leaders to a White House conference tonight to decide the scope of anti-strike legislation scheduled to come before the chamber next week...
Since a flaw like this seriously narrows the scope of the new program, an investigation of how it might be solved seems in order. Drawing on the regular scholarship fund, which seems the most obvious solution, would doubtless prove to be unsatisfactory, since these funds are already inadequate. Of the four hundred and fifty upper-classmen on the Dean's List who last year applied for scholarship aid, one hundred and fifty were turned down. Further demands would simply make it harder for everyone...
...Coward play is a short work, too much lacking in depth of characterization and scope of treatment to resolve successfully the large problem with which it grapples. Yet within this limitation it achieves a certain power and vitality, fully expressed by the Repertory's able cast. Life in the post-war twenties is depicted as a vortex of ever-accelerating tempo which sucks in both young and old, and crushes them in a mad whirl of meaningless activity, devoid of all values, empty of all reality. A climax is reached in the mad piano-playing of young Nicky...
Observing weather, true to the average of open nights, was half hazy with clouds and half clear, but as the graduate student of astronomy who was exhibiting the moon and the planet Jupiter through the big 15-inch 'scope, reminded his audience, it is unfair to blame 'the observatory staff for the pranks of the elements. However, no rain checks were given...
Hollywood has produced nothing that begins to match the poignant tragedy of this picture since "The Grapes of Wrath" or "The Long Voyage Home." As a sociological document, the scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...