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...Somewhere in the back of his greying head, the President kept his plans for making the momentously planned Wage and Hour Division into an efficient U. S. agency. First on his docket was the shift of Administrator Elmer Andrews to a less harassing post; second probability was his replacement by a New Deal trouble-shooter with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer...
Washington wisemen pondered the abrupt petering-out of this latest advertised Battle of the Century, saw ahead only victory for the Administration, barring a sudden unpredictable shift in the weather of World...
Since Coleman's shift to the backfield, Burgy Ayres is apparently the most assured Sophomore of a permanent first team post, at center. Superlatives cannot be affixed to Ayres at the moment. He's only moderately steady in passing to the backfield; he is quite good at blocking; and only so so in backing up the line...
Japan Must Shift...
Exemplifying this trend is Ernest Fiene, German-born American painter. His oil, Night Shift, strongly protests against the humanity-stifling power of industry and its ever-increasing tendency to draw the life-blood from the individuality of the laborers. We see a group of shabbily-dressed workers slowly trudging toward the mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter...