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...reactionaries." In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Frank called on Mr. & Mrs. La Follette, who then lived right across the street. Their courtesy was not returned. Last year at a Lincoln Day Republican rally in Chicago, ambitious President Frank, who has been sporadically mentioned as Presidential timber, made his first big blunder by using the phrase "our party." Those words shivered all through politically alert Wisconsin. When Phil La Follette got back the Governorship last year, Mr. & Mrs. Frank were not invited to stand in the receiving line at the inaugural ball. Mr. & Mrs. La Follette stayed away from Wisconsin...
...last week members of the Japanese Privy Council, too angry to be discreet, blabbed that the Japanese Foreign Minister had himself unwittingly blabbed the secret in a conversation with the Soviet Ambassador to Japan, Comrade Konstantin Yurenev who of course flashed it to Litvinoff. The cost of this blunder to the Japanese fishing industry, according to its irate Tokyo tycoons last week, will run into the tens of millions...
...placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...
...Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6, 1935 et seq.). On a set devised by Donald Oenslager which has a huge, improbable limb of some coniferous tree hanging from the proscenium, hopeful men, women & children arrive singing, yapping, gossiping, making acquaintances. Because a bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned...
Every indication points to an administration sortie into Congress with the Canal in tow. And not far behind lurks the dismal shade of its twin blunder, the Passamaquoddy project. President Roosevelt, this time, undoubtedly has the power and prestige to browbeat a subservient Congress into a receptive mood. To do so, however, would be an appalling abuse of trust and confidence...