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...Governor of New York State, last week followed his first attack with another delivered before the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia. Next day in Washington, Secretary of Interior Ickes stepped to a microphone with a fighting speech which looked as if it had been tempered on the same anvil as Bob Jackson...
...Metropolitan debutant was German Heldentenor Carl Hartmann, who had made previous U. S. appearances with the German Opera Company in 1931. As principal protagonist in one of the finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and pounded his anvil with energy and musicianship, peeled the armor from sleeping Brunnhilde (Marjorie Lawrence) with a taxidermist's skill. Vocally he wavered once or twice, but he lived up to the excellent reports of his ability which had leaked out from rehearsals...
...utilities, a fortnight's headlines to the contrary. And that in failing to win the confidence of utility men, he had still to convince watchful Business that he was as yet philosophically or psychologically capable of tossing the nation's currently sinking commercial life something beside an anvil...
When one white-hot iron is on a good smith's anvil, another should be in the fire heating. Such is Franklin Roosevelt's way of working. So he worked last week. While all eyes were intent on the shower of sparks that his hammer set flying from the Supreme Court issue, the happy Presidential smith had another iron quietly buried in the coals...
...three necessary cogs--comprised of guests, faculty members, and students--have clicked into place. There is every reason to believe that the topics hammered out on the anvil of discussion at the Conference will be converted into useful prodcts...