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...impersonated by Leonora Corona, onetime singer at the Metropolitan Opera. A Texas girl whose costume as Thai's when she appeared at the Cincinnati Zoo Opera three years ago shocked her audience (TIME, July 31, 1933), Miss Corona showed herself at the Waldorf in a shining little shift and neat metallic girdle, while before her paraded still more socialites as the great love-women of history. Finally in marched 54 debutantes, each bearing a giant candle, 18 maids of honor, a giant birthday cake borne by four chefs, and Oscar of the Waldorf. Franklin Roosevelt was much pleased...
...have been in 1935, but today the rising might of Germany is more clearly visible. The European balance of power is being further & further upset, and this is the traditional signal for British policy to shift so as to find itself at the new fulcrum. In exalted London circles of birth, finance and politics last week novel and weighty things were being said. One of these was that, sooner than most people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard...
Taken suddenly ill with an attack of grippe an hom before the game, Captain White was rushed to the Stillman man Infirmary, necessitating a shift...
When a group of producers of any sort cease to make money, they will gradually be reduced in numbers, shifting to more lucrative fields, until the remaining ones have sufficiently large incomes to be induced to stay. What the Government should do is encourage this shift, make it less painful, and above all stimulate, through sound economic policies, other industries to such an extent that an absorption of the unnecessary factors of production may be possible...
During the last century, and the beginning of this one, a tremendous movement from farms to industrial areas took place. The shift was extremely painful, but it happened. Not only did the A.A.A. make the future shift more painful; it deliberately slowed it up, made it temporarily impossible, by making direct payments to the farmers for remaining where the country does not need them...