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...that his and Secretary Hull's recent, repeated condemnations of autarchies and aggressors too definitely aligned the U. S. with England and France if Germany provoked a war, Mr. Roosevelt suddenly lashed out at "some" U. S. editors and columnists. He said their interpretations were politically warped, entirely wrong...
Most political scientists think the educators are wrong. Five years ago University of Chicago began a study of school control, assigned to it an educator and a political scientist. Last week, after studying school systems in the 191 cities (33 of which they visited), the educator, Professor Nelson B. Henry, and the political scientist, Professor Jerome G. Kerwin. made a surprising report.* They agreed that so-called "independent" school systems had just as much politics and corruption as dependent ones...
...each from all working Californians*.), "$30 Every Thursday'' was no daydream politically. Close to 800,000 signatures were obtained for petitions to put it on the November ballot and last week, day after Californians went to the primary polls, the State Supreme Court announced there was nothing wrong with the form of the petitions, on the ballot it must go. Candidate Downey, who had plumped for the scrip plan and adopted its slogans ("Life Begins at 50," "Ham & Eggs"), rolled up 486,000 votes to Mr. McAdoo...
Reporting an hour early for his first day's work* as a stock boy in the basement of William Filene's Sons department store in Boston, John Aspinwall Roosevelt entered by the wrong door, drew the wrong time slip, forgot to throw away his cigaret. Said he: "I'm really serious about this job. The sooner everybody forgets I'm my father's son, the better it will be for me. ... It sure is interesting...
...Sniffing the fragrant scent wafted over from the Botanical Gardens, she strolled up & down the edge of the concrete moat which separates animals from sightseers, squealed coquettishly to her 4,500-lb. mate, Bill, to come out and join her. But Bill had got out of bed with the wrong foot; when he came out. pointedly ignored her. Vexed, Hilda gave a loud, long trumpet. Suddenly Bill lowered his head, charged, hit Hilda broadside, knocked her tail-over-tea-kettle into the 25-ft.-deep moat, where she lay on crumpled legs, apparently paralyzed...