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...appearances, Harry Hopkins had indeed recommended Pinky over Aubrey. The choice in fact represented no great change in policy, but a concession to political expediency. Pinky Harrington is a first-rate politician. Particularly does he know how to coddle Congressmen -a talent which single-minded Aubrey Williams lacks. Since Relief is headed for a good going-over in the next Congress, Franklin Roosevelt needs such a man at the top of WPA. Even 100% New Dealers concede that Aubrey Williams is not the man, after his public talk about class war and the political privileges of Reliefers...
Undaunted by the indictment, A. M. A. Editor Morris Fishbein quoted the House of Delegates: "[We will exhaust], if necessary, the last recourse of distinguished legal talent to establish the ultimate right of organized medicine to ... oppose types of contract practice damaging to the health of the public." A. M. A.'s "legal talent" made it clear that they would take the tack that medicine is a learned profession, not a trade, and thus does not fall within the scope of the Sherman Act. Attorney Arnold hopes that the A. M. A. will soon file a demurrer...
...Eddie Dowling) has been blinded in one eye, has lost his home, his job, his child, and been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding stories. Appalled by the knowledge of so much other suffering in the world, Clancy momentarily damns the world as evil; then affirms that man, through the exercise of his will, can make...
...Paris Bound. But he is most warmly admired by the elect for an ironic fantasy, White Wings. And he has most thoroughly puzzled and stimulated theatre-goers with his mystical play, Hotel Universe, in its intentions something of a precursor to Here Come the Clowns. Two contradictory kinds of talent are apt to keep Barry from ever becoming a cut-to-measure playwright : on the one hand, a keen eye for manners, a suave wit, a gift for fresh, pointed dialogue; on the other, a restless imagination, great moral heat, a feeling for below-the-surface tragedy...
Born in Lawrence almost 66 years ago, George was trained as a mechanic. His literary talent, which became apparent early in life, was inherited from his father, George Russell Jackson, Boston newspaperman and author. A widower, Mr. Jackson will move to the home of a niece in Melrose...