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Herbert Clark Hoover, hands in pockets, stomach to the fore, obviously loving his chance, warned the coming generation that the New Deal had mortgaged it. "It was Republicans," the nation's one living ex-President reiterated, who wrought reforms before Franklin Roosevelt, and would again. The "oxygen of opposition," he said, would save the people from their "rendezvous with debt...
Yasuo Kuniyoshi likes black & white touches so much that rare is the Kuniyoshi composition without a magazine, a corner of newspaper, a wrought-iron figure, a brunette en chemise. Another thing he likes is playing with webby threads of paint as a pastry cook plays with icing, to catch the light and give his canvases lustre. His great-eyed, meanderingly drawn figures often seem to exist in a mussy halo of phosphorescence, with vast spaces of mere paint around them. This highly mannered style does not satisfy Kuniyoshi, but it is the first one he has made fully and expressively...
...time when his fellow citizens can have a field day quoting him against himself: budget time. Last week when he again sent a budget message to Congress, those many remembered utterances were more significant than usual. They served to document the fundamental changes which six years have wrought in Franklin Roosevelt's fiscal philosophy. Among them...
...well aware of what Japan calls the "changed" situation in China, but also aware that the change has been wrought by Japan's armies...
...good deal more wrought up than slow-spoken Carmi Thompson, Chairman Marshall pointed out that a Department of Justice investigation four years ago found nothing wrong. Snapped he: "If the SEC followed the same liquidity rule they are trying to force on us they would ruin a good many insurance companies...