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...half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill he proposed to set up an Auditor General to audit expenditures after they were made, transfer to the Treasury Department's Budget Bureau the job of approving them beforehand...
Twice during the year there emerges from University Hall a storm of little white envelopes containing what are euphemistically termed "study cards." To all but the most conscientious of undergraduates--who, months beforehand, have carefully planned the minute details of their curriculum--the familiar forms are distinctly painful; and the problem of deciding upon one's intellectual career is made doubly hard by the notorious vagueness of the official register...
...government, signifying Daladier and the Radical-Socialist party, paradoxically conservative; has won a victory, labor, headed by Leon Blum's Socialists and the Communists, has not suffered defeat. The leaders of the C. G. T. announced beforehand that the strike would proceed calmly and without violence; and so it did. Submission therefore, to the army was natural; but what appears significant, it was a surrender to discipline, a sacrifice of labor's closest interests in order to promote the welfare and unity of France as a nation. Events of the last few years have proved the French factions hostile...
...Greek, or as Faust and Don Juan serve the writers of the world. Lincoln's story is well-known, well-loved, an advantage for the playwright greater than the most smashing plot would be; for an audience bringing with it a quivering mass of associations is ready beforehand to participate in the playwright's particular interpretation of Lincoln's life...
...find it good business to get rid of 3,250,000 Sudeten Germans in exchange for a loan of $150,000,000−or about $46 per blond Sudeten squarehead. The startled House could not but suspect that smart Dr. Benes had been secretly tipped off by Mr. Chamberlain beforehand as to how much wiser it might prove financially to yield the Sudetenland rather than fight...