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...clatter of hammers and the fresh smell of unpainted Virginia pine filled the White House grounds last week. Beyond the north lawn and across broad Pennsylvania Avenue, along Lafayette Park, workmen were knocking together grandstands. There on Jan. 20 the President and as many U. S. citizens as can be accommodated will watch the inaugural parade of Term III: a two-hour procession of the nation's armed forces, including a mechanized unit from Fort Knox...
...with his hat on his head and said, The Arab is dead. He died an orphan in an alien world, six thousand miles from home. He wanted to go home and die. He wanted to see his sons again. He wanted to talk to them again. He wanted to smell them. He wanted to hear them breathing. He had no money. He used to think about them all the time. Now he is dead. Now go away. I love...
...HAVE LONG LOST PATIENCE WITH THE SMALL VOCIFEROUS GROUP OF FANATICS AND PROFESSIONAL IRISHMEN WITH THE SMELL OF SYNTHETIC PEAT ABOUT THEM WHO HAVE WORKED FOR SO LONG AND SO VICIOUSLY AGAINST BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THIS COUNTRY AND GREAT BRITAIN...
Edward Francis McGrady looks like a clever negotiator and is one. He can smell labor trouble a mile away, can bring together bitterly opposed and uncompromising elements of labor and management and get them to compromise. Last week War Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson snapped up a suggestion from President Roosevelt, enlisted McGrady in his drive against defense strikes. Tired of waiting for President Roosevelt to elevate him from "little cabinet" status to Labor Secretary, McGrady had gone to work in 1937 for Radio Corp. of America, as vice president in charge of labor relations at $25,000 a year...
...exhibition before. Six hundred and fifty-three museums and schools, 5,000 stores, 782 art organizations, hundreds of individuals contributed money for exhibition space and running expenses. WPA furnished labor. Famous painters and sculptors hung works that might have graced any museum. Nobodies with an itch for the smell of turpentine displayed everything from incompetent daubs to genuine "primitives." For sheer quantity of canvas and paint, nothing like Art Week had ever been seen even in the peak days of the Italian Renaissance...