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...been seeing the President regularly -twice a week for months. What did they think of these rumors? With one accord-and not a little blasphemy-they branded them as pure and unadulterated bunk. Well, I tried a few questions of the same sort on Capitol Hill among the sober-headed legislators. With just as much unanimity and only a little less color, they said the same thing: 'Pure and unadulterated bunk.' Then I sprang it on a few men-about-Washington -who make it a point to be in on the know -regardless of who is President. Their...
...public: "This act defines, as a part of our substantive law, the right of self-organization of employes in industry. ... It may eventually eliminate one major cause of labor disputes but it will not stop all labor disputes. . . . Accepted by labor, management and the public, with a sense of sober responsibility and of willing cooperation, however, it should serve as an important step toward the achievement of just and peaceful labor relations in industry...
...such occasions is to have everything go off smoothly, Uncle Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught's little rules, which he scrupulously observes: "No officer may swear in the presence of a superior officer, but he may use 'damn' to a subordinate...
...good Jew is Comedian Eddie Cantor, born Izzy Iskowitch on Manhattan's East Side. He helps Jewish charities raise funds, runs a camp for poor children at Cold Spring-on-Hudson, N. Y., has endowed a fellowship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Sober and articulate, Eddie Can.tor last week addressed a convention of B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles as follows...
...CLOUDS IN THE SKIES OF THE FAR EAST ? Tom Ireland ? Putnam ($2.75). Sober, highly documented analysis of Japanese expansion, and a critical discussion of U. S. Far Eastern policy...