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...surprised," said harassed Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace last week, "that some people would say we are back to 1932. . . ." Then, after repeating the complaint that some newspapers were "creating a wrong impression," he issued a batch of figures to show how U. S. farmers are faring under the new AAA: estimated 1938 farm income (including Government largess) is $7,500,000,000, down 12.7% from 1937-but 74% above...
...sustained strenuous effort. Face-saving is our dominant note in the confused symphony of our existence. Our sense of righteousness often is dulled by a desire for personal gain. We lack the superb courage which impels action because it is right. Our greatest fear is not to do wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. ... A wrong adaptation of foreign customs creates in us, especially among...
...District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery has just been off on the wrong foot. . . . Incidentally, he has been separated from his wife for three years...
...Cartoonist Jack Knox of the Memphis Commercial Appeal expressed some Southerners' feelings about "the nation's No. 1 economic problem." He showed Uncle Sam stepping on his own toes, exclaiming: Oh! Oh! Something is wrong with my right foot...
...year-old and had not won a race this season, doubted whether even foxy, strong-fingered Henry Thomas could handle him. At the end of the first one-mile heat, when McLin, trotting in faultless gait, came home three lengths in front, railbirds fancied they might be wrong. At the end of the second heat they saluted a great horse. McLin had won in straight heats (2:02 ¼, 2:02¾). To Owner Sheppard went $19,944, just $56 less than the amount he had paid Bill Cane the week before...