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...starry-eyed innocents appear in the New Deal brood, we shall have to withdraw our uncompromising snobbery; they must be judged of themselves, not for their parenthood. President Roosevelt deserves the greatest credit for showing politicians of the most successful variety a way of extending indefinitely and forever the scope of honest and intelligent administration in government. Give your friends longer and better jobs; insure that when they die off they will be replaced by their betters...
...radio campaigning was disclosed yesterday, when the Columbia Broadcasting System announced that it will give the Communist Party free time on the air. It is evident that the radio has assumed a place of political importance at least equal to that of the daily newspaper, and an impartiality whose scope and influence far exceed the best local press organs. At the bottom of this policy of non-partisanship lies the Federal Communications Commission, a body, which, if its present principles are maintained permanently, will do more for the success of democratic government than any possible mechanical reform...
STOOGING for Gracie Allen, one of Ted Hu numerous radio chores, is at best confining ness for the man whose tongue and quick eye been ten years behind the mike. When given scope, as it is during the football season and in clubs, the tongue wins bordes of admirers s liberally with enemies. For example, when Ted Minnesota's 35 first stringers might be bench was at Princeton, or some such. Or when he t forked retort off-duty at critics or anyone else brushes with the man who has been ten years be the mile...
...thought as well as cleverness of execution. One is thus compelled to note that "End of Summer" is an amusing play which makes the mistake of sliding off the plane of pure comedy and getting unnecessarily mixed up in the complexities of problems that properly lie beyond its scope. Fortunately Miss Claire's charming manner and the excellent acting of Osgood Perkins and the assembled company go far in restoring the play to a more comfortable level...
...replacement of personnel in anti- New Deal agencies. This is the first real check which the merit system has suffered since its introduction in 1883. With the exception of the second Roosevelt every President, even Wilson, working under the pressure of war-time demands on administration, has extended the scope of the merit system, so that by the end of Hoover's administration 80% of the government employees were included. In appalling contrast, at the close of the fiscal year 1935 the percentage of competitive places had dropped to 57, approximately the ratio which prevailed...