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...Last autumn the Japanese grand fleet maneuvered in the Caroline and Marshall Islands, between Guam and the Philippines. The U. S. Navy ruefully admits it has "never had the nerve" to exercise in Far Eastern waters...
...Fleet was returned to the Atlantic largely because President Roosevelt wanted the East to get the commercial benefit at least until late autumn of its $1,000,000 monthly payroll. As Commanders-in-Chief, most Presidents run the Navy only nominally, mak-ing appointments and issuing orders only as their Secretaries of the Navy may require. President Roosevelt, however, runs the Navy in fact. At first his election was viewed by the Navy with alarm. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels came close to wrecking the service's esprit and morale with his politics and naval men recalled that...
From Chicago, Publisher Hearst went on to Washington for his first visit with the man he had helped to put into the White House. Long after luncheon he and President Roosevelt sat talking about NRA. which Mr. Hearst last autumn called "a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties.'' They might also have talked of the Brain Trust, which Hearst papers once called ''infatuates, dogmatists, cheerio pundits." or the cancellation of airmail contracts which Hearst violently opposed. More happily, publisher might have congratulated President on the Stock Exchange Bill, which he warmly favors...
...legislation-a new Labor Board, unemployment insurance, old age pensions for industry, a permanent housing program, a permanent system of relief for unemployed- topics too controversial to be acted on at this session but to which loyal Democratic Representatives up for re-election could point with pride during their autumn campaign...
...years has taught Berlin that people buy music they can play and sing. Irving Berlin is the very active head of Irving Berlin Inc. He may work all night in his East End Avenue apartment. (Lately he has been busy on the broadcasts, planning a revue for next autumn.) He may occasionally flee the city for Nassau or Bermuda, any place to sit in the sun. But most afternoons he is hustling downtown, first to the barber who for 23 years has combed his hair and shaved him, then to the office. He has seen the music-publishing business...