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...Sundays ago Friend Walter Winchell twanged over the radio: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation G-Men swung into action at daybreak and arrested over 30 people in the Federal drive against Miami vice and white slavery. The higher-ups who will be named eventually will shock the State of Florida...
...deep rich colors--deep and rich as the music which poured from their willowy f holes. Vag thought of the man who had made them, Stradivarius, the wizardry master of Cremona. Somehow, he pictured him as looking like Pinnochio's Geppetto--small and wizened, with a rapidly thinning shock of white hair, bright rabbit-like eyes, wire-rimmed glasses set on the end of a very sharp nose, and a brown wart with two grey hairs protruding from the end of a long, sharp chin--Vag was very certain of the wart...
...great and still disgust by its ugliness. Its attraction is the attraction of evil. Its entertainment is that of waiting and hoping for good. And therein is the great artistry of Miss Hellman. "The Little Foxes" is brutal and overpowering. It forces submission. Only as the first shock wears off and the nasty details fade away does the immensity of the stated truth begin to emerge. That is Miss Hellman's real message of hope. The brittle clearness of reality--the strength to examine life and admit some of its fallacies--is an immense satisfaction...
...Roosevelt was in a jubilant mood as he received reporters for his press conference one day last week. Chuckling as he read from a memorandum written by Economic Adviser Lauchlin Currie-occasionally remarking: "The Republicans will have a hard time answering that one." "This will come as quite a shock to some people"-he listed several highly mathematical reasons why the U. S. is not going broke. He repeated one of them three times, not from the memo but from memory. As unanimously reported by the correspondents present it ran: From 1932 to 1939, decreases in State, county and local...
...inquiry-i.e., by-line exposés and rascal-kicking-The Nation proudly printed a message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Wrote the President: "I think no one would ever accuse The Nation of seeking to become a popular organ. . . ." But Founder Godkin would have suffered a severe shock could he have seen last week how far The Nation had gone along the road on which he started it. For Godkin's politics were fairly spongy compared to The Nation's present devout and single-minded Leftism...