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...first time that Liberal M. P.s had complained that one-sixth of Scotland, or about 3,400,000 acres, was devoted to deer. Once, in 1913, when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was a project afoot to force the deer-park-owning peers to sell the land to the Government, which would then settle farmers on it. The peers were more than willing. They flooded the Government with offers. The Duke of Sutherland, who then owned 19 deer forests comprising 396,175 acres, offered half his lands at $10 an acre. Catch is that Scottish deer...
...went protests against Poet MacLeish based on charges-more considerable than "Communism"-to which he humbly pleaded guilty. In announcing the appointment, Mr. Roosevelt explained that ever since 77-year-old Dr. Herbert Putnam (40 years Librarian, emeritus since last year) asked to be relieved, a search had been afoot for a successor possessing the many qualifications required. Mr. Roosevelt had finally decided that technical assistants could be hired for a librarian whose attainments as "gentleman and a scholar" are world renowned. To this, President Milton James Ferguson of the American Library Association, head of Brooklyn's public library...
North Dakota's Senator Gerald("Munitions") Nye last week lectured the Senate on propaganda,suggesting that plenty of it was afoot today as in 1914-17 to draw theU. S. abroad. Said he: '"We cannot escape part in it if war comes to Europe.' Why does this thought persist and grow . . .? Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed out of the last war. There were 55,000,000 people living in democracies at the very door of the war in Europe. If they could stay out . . . why must we even lend ourselves to the thought that...
Cruel, unwarranted and frequently untrue have been the jokes leveled at WPA. An effort is afoot to put an end to them on the stage. But WPA itself has not ceased making them. Last week it was discovered that a WPA slum clearance gang, sent to tear down a house at 158 Belmont Ave., Brooklyn, found the houses in the block unnumbered, razed No. 156 by mistake...
Plans are now afoot for members of the team to participate in a round-robin intercollegiate tournament to be held during the Easter vacation...