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...Roosevelt demanded the program as his answer to the dictators after Germany began dismemberment of the Czechoslovakian republic...
...Some years ago Einstein visited California's Mt. Wilson Observatory, which houses under a vast rotatable dome the largest (100-inch) operating telescope in the world. Einstein was standing on a horizontal flange attached to the dome, when an astronomer flipped a switch and the dome began to turn, Einstein with it. The physicist did not realize that he was moving. Like most visitors subjected to the same experience, it seemed to him that he was stationary, that the whole central well of the observatory (solidly anchored through concrete pillars to bedrock) was turning in the opposite direction...
...Section Four of the bill, which proposes that States use Federal grants "to provide medical care for low income groups." Since this proposal leaves the set-up of such medical care to individual States, and since State legislators will heed the recommendations of State medical societies, doctors last week began making up their minds on the vital question of compulsory health insurance...
That paradox began with NRA, which was almost a perfect expression of monopolistic economics. When it was abolished, the New Deal reversed its field, has since been on an anti-trust rampage. But a large group of New Dealers (such as Economist Leon Henderson) have continued to favor the NRA approach. With creation of the "business appeasement" policy, they have begun to emerge from the New Deal doghouse, to the alarm of more left-wing New Dealers (such as Lawyers Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen, Economist David Cushman Coyle). Last week's blast against steel was meant to chase...
Last year he checked up on his savings account. He figured he now had sufficient income to stop working and write as he pleased. He sent in his resignation to baffled superiors, moved to a Manhattan apartment, began the full-time literary career he had dreamed of. Some Like Them Short is his first book since then-a collection of 20 tight-kerneled, first-rate stories and sketches ranging from the tale of a shoe salesman to a group of sketches about German War prisoners. But only four of these stories were written in the last year. Besides these, Author...