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From Henry Wallace, whom Stage Manager Bob Hannegan co-starred with the President: "We know that [Republican] normalcy will lead to boom, bust and chaos. [The Democratic Party] stands for the people first, property second...
During the war the machinists, over company protests, secured a maintenance of membership clause from the War Labor Board. At war's end, Yale & Towne tried to drop the clause. The machinists struck -the company was out "to bust the union." Among the first to walk out were veterans of 50 years at Yale & Towne; they were trading an old story for a new idea...
Last week Manhattan's aging, spry Dr. George B. McAuliffe, 81, a retired professor of otology who dabbles in the field of posture correction, voiced sinister warnings against the bust-flattening, underslung flapper figure which causes shifting of vital organs, general internal trouble. Dr. McAuliffe thinks American girls today are pretty good; their neat, trim figures, unhampered by unnecessary clothes, are the best nature has produced in this country. Let them stay that way, advised Dr. McAuliffe, and "let them dress as though it were always summertime...
...four-hour-long version of John Drinkwater's generation-old Abraham Lincoln. The stilted, undramatic play is nothing in itself to warm audiences up. Neither is the name of Lincoln, which to most Japs is far more hazy than hallowed-even though Emperor Hirohito has a "cherished" bust of him in his temporary palace. But the production, with popular, 5 ft. 7 in. Actor Chojuro Kawaraskai playing Lincoln, shows great technical skill; and the theme of Emancipation arouses great interest...
...buys land in Iowa today is a fool." The speaker, naturally, was an Iowa dirt farmer, sounding off last week on the rip-roaring boom in farm lands. He still remembered the World War I boom, in which Iowa land went to $255 an acre-and the bust, when it dropped to $69. So many went broke that in the early 1930's insurance companies held an area equal to eight Iowa counties. But others forgot to remember. Even in Iowa, fat with corn and hogs, a man could not make a long-term profit on land that cost...