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During the present campaign it has been the fate of shallow minds to confuse the dramatic, band-stand plays of Roosevelt for political liberalism. The Yale News falls squarely into this trap. It pays the New Deal the compliment of having done something for the worker. If the N.R.A., with its haphazard and unalterable codes drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce at will, could do anything for labor, that benefits has yet to appear. If the breakup of the united labor front in this country into a Green and a Lewis camp, which was openly fostered by the President...
Regarding this communication as by far the most interesting and intelligent of the 5,000-odd which the beauty series evoked from readers. Editor Desmond Hall at first suspected it might be a clever trap set by a rival magazine. Contributing Editor Helen Josephy, in charge of the beauty articles, invited Nurse Phillips to Mademoiselle's, Manhattan office. Convinced of the young lady's good faith, the editors decided to take a sporting chance and see what could be done about her personal appearance in one week's time. Thus was launched a heroic course of beauty...
...several weeks proclamations have been posted in the Islands saying: "News has reached me that another uprising is being planned. . . . All that is a trap set by our enemies. . . . No one should believe it. The Sakdalistas have no other duty than to be peaceful and await my return. . . . I urge the temporary dissolution of the Party. . . . So long as the Party exists, snakes will surely hide behind it, especially at present when it is both rainy and hot. . . . [The Party] will be revived as soon as I return-Benigno Ramos...
...canes, has set his heart on becoming proprietor of a heavyweight champion prizefighter. The Root screen play shows how a G-man (Robert Young), who has inherited a promising young plug-ugly from a brother the racketeer has killed, uses this obsession to bait a dangerous but efficient trap. Good shot: Emerald snubbing the G-Man's accomplice (Florence Rice) for trying to excite him by pulling her dress up to her knees...
...defending Irun the proletarian militia supporting the Government, which had been deserted by most of its Army, carefully mined the terrain over which it was thought Generalissimo Franco's forces must advance. This trap was betrayed to the White forces by their sympathizers in the Government camp fortnight ago, and last week they were able to avoid it and get down to straight fighting...