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While the President pondered this problem on the Rapidan, in the Capital 100 mi. away was occurring just the sort of thing that had been predicted. Fire broke out in "Tempo No. 4" quartering the Federal Trade Commission, burned savagely for three hours, gutted the tindery building, injured 20 firemen, destroyed countless Government files and documents.* Lost or damaged were the Trade Commission's records of investigations into chain stores, newsprint, power companies, cottonseed, peanuts. Replacement of some of the data from outside sources was possible, though slow and difficult. The destruction of "Tempo No. 4" gave President Hoover...
Dream Waltz of a Newark matron (Mrs. Edna R. Passapae) and a Brooklyn dance-master (A. J. Weber) was adopted as the official waltz of the year, demonstrated by President Sheehy and his daughter Katherine. Tempo is slower than the famed Boston Waltz, the steps are long and combine waltz, hesitation and running movements. ''Long dresses," declared Matron Passapae, "are bringing back the waltz because its gliding smooth steps are the ones that look best for young women in the new attire...
...There are several thousand witnesses to be examined. The indictments alone comprise 69 large volumes. But, courage! I hope?and I prophesy, basing my prophecy on the accelerated tempo of the Regime?that with energy and zeal this trial will come to an end in less than half a year...
When murmurs rose against the "staggering estimated cost" (17 billion francs, or $666,400,000), dynamic M. Tardieu leaned bristling from the tribune. "Unemployment is coming in this country before the end of the year, Messieurs," he cried, "unless you accelerate the tempo of national industry! . . . It is high time that these projects be launched if France is not to face a period of unemployment like her neighbors...
...defeat of President Wilson's original plan. His was then not a popular attitude. Much potential pre-War Liberalism had turned reactionary in the War- time fever, and The New Republic lost 40% of its 48,000 circulation. After the War it faced a nation whose tempo had suddenly, nervously quickened, whose major thought tendencies, expressed in journalism, philosophy and literature, were toward the satire, horselaugh and Menckenian sneer, hardly sympathetic to the earnest, didactic, creative attitude of The New Republic. Dismayed by the scene around him, Editor Croly's faiths subtly changed; his belief in progressive movements...