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...certain that there will be an election in November 1936," shouted Father Charles E. Coughlin to his alarmed radio audience last month. What he meant was that war might take the place of an election. The political priest might be right or wrong but the fact remained that never before in U. S. history have so many extensive and intensive attempts been made so far in advance to foretell what will happen...
Taking the hint, the Press jumped to the conclusion that big Federal works, such as the Florida Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. would be separated from Relief projects, brought inside the regular budget. Right or wrong in its guess, the Press was brought up short on a matter of terminology. To a newshawk who asked if the "double-budget system" would be continued, the budget-burdened President gave an irate answer: There never had been any double budget. Regular and Relief expenditures were kept separate for the same reason that the War and Navy Departments were kept separate...
Apart from certain tears physically shed in the House of Commons last week, apart from the unprecedented gush of emotion as His Majesty's Government admitted their Ethiopian policy to be all wrong, apart from other sensational and high strung happenings in London (see p. 12), there emerged the first clear-cut exposition of what has actually been done behind Europe's diplomatic scenes to end the Ethiopian...
...when at the age of 35 he came tearing out of the Andean foothills at the head of a regiment of hard-riding gauchos to support with his neighbor, Cipriano Castro, the government of President Aldueza Palacio in one of the country's innumerable revolutions. They guessed wrong. The successful revolutionists exiled Gomez & Castro. Seven years later another revolution left Cipriano Castro President of Venezuela and General Gomez Vice President and Minister of War. President Castro's vices and extravagances nearly bankrupted the nation. In 1908 when Castro was in Germany attempting to have his liver repaired, General...
...characters are bewildered," continued Mr. Odets. "The best laid plans go wrong. The sweetest human impulses are frustrated. No one leads a normal life here, and every decent tendency finds its complement in sterility and futility. Our confused middle-class today, which dares little, is dangerously similar to Chekhov's people. Which is why the people in Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost (particularly the latter) have what is called a 'Chekhovian quality.' Which is why it is so sinful to violate their lives and aspirations with plot lines. Plots are primer stuff, easily learned...