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With a layman's proverbial disregard for Biblical scholarship, I venture to place these words before you this afternoon torn from their context and ask you to read them with twentieth century eyes. If you will follow me in this I suggest you will have in hand an epitome of what you have been striving to attain during the last four years--an education...
...only one complaint: that it was 'too big.' One subscriber, who had spent years training his dog to bring in the paper from the front porch, irrevocably canceled his subscription, saying that in a vain attempt to make good on the enormous issue the dog had torn it to ribbons and then died of a broken heart. Seriously, papers of 350 pages or more are too big to be read at one sitting. . . . For this reason we have taken a leaf from the technique of luxury-train dispatchers, and have 'made up' in two sections, identical...
...painters, make-up men & scenic artists and members of eight other crafts, allied in Federated Motion Picture Crafts, continued on strike for union recognition and closed shops (TIME, May 10). With the help of strikebreakers, cameras ground away as usual, but over Hollywood hung the ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing through the picket lines by snapping their photographs for a "scabs' gallery." Worst violence occurred when a gang of 50 men with hammers...
...Saturday. Among the upsets was Columbia's Ben Johnson who was dethroned in the hundred, and failed to even qualify in the broad jump. Johnson's poor performance has been laid by some to a mental condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year ago. It is to be doubted though that this supposed handicap should cause him to foul twice in the broad jump and strain so as he never has before at the finish of the hundred. More likely is it that Ben had an off day familiar...
...growing hostility of Capitol Hill. If Congress accept the Michigan Senator's plan for an unemployment census, the President would have a sound basis upon which to formulate his demands and a reliable indication of the true success of his program, Mr. Roosevelt would no longer be torn between two factions demanding from one to three billions for relief, and Presidential estimates would cease to be an economically unscientific but politically prudent mean between...