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...husband was at home. "I don't tell him anything," she explained. Another housewife urged the census taker to help her discover how much her husband earned. The man who set out to get the count in View Ridge, Wash, (wartime pop. 4,000) suffered a deep shock. Not a soul lived in View Ridge any more...
...Popular Front. Young Lawyer Blum helped defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus. He became a protege and confidant of the great French Socialist leader Jean Leon Jaures. But Blum's approach was steadfastly intellectual: he seemed to disdain practical politics. The assassination of Jaures and the shock of World War I changed the current of his life. In 1919, at 47, the dilettante was elected a deputy...
...Kennedy, who could have sold the onions for $90,000 six months ago, did not weep over his loss; nor did he yell for price support. He is opposed to price supports of any kind. With a self-reliance that would shock many a Farm Bloc Congressman, Republican Kennedy asked last week: "Why should any one group pay another group support prices or anything else? It always makes me tired to hear of the Government doing this or that. The Government don't have any money unless it takes it away from you or me first...
...course, self-criticism gives good material to [our] enemies. You are perfectly right about that. But self-criticism also gives material (and a push) for our advancing, for competition, for shock brigades, et al. The negative side is covered and super-covered by the positive...
...prove it last week he was turning his back on his new-found museum home, closing his villa and moving south to the Midi. Like Picasso he had become interested in making pottery. "When I touched the soil, I felt a shock. The earth of the Midi is made for ceramics." He is also considering a commission to decorate a Roman Catholic chapel at Vence near the one that Fellow Artist Matisse (TIME, Oct. 24) is now designing...