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...charge of the new construction program is shy, greying Assistant Secretary Edison, who has already announced the Navy's intention of asking Congress for two more battleships at the next regular session. Taking his cue from Franklin Roosevelt's fondness for quoting from other philosophers, Mr. Edison last week quoted him: ["It is] entirely consistent with our continuing readiness to limit armaments to maintain a defense at sea sufficient to insure the preservation of our democratic ideals and the maintenance of a righteous peace...
Home Politics. To the U. S. public, China is symbolized by Confucius, Ming vases, heroic missionaries, clean shirts and Charlie Chan. Japan means harakiri, imperialism, post cards of Fujiyama, and the Yellow Peril. That Franklin Roosevelt had correctly gauged public psychology in giving a cue to all good citizens that the time had come when moral indignation need no longer be suppressed appeared from, the swift reaction to his speech. Europe naturally was pleased but the U. S. press also produced more words of approval, some enthusiastic and some tempered, than have greeted any Roosevelt step in many a month...
...snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan's 7th Avenue who were asked last winter to guess what women would be wearing this fall, Hollywood designers Omar (né Alexander) Kiam, Irene and Helen Taylor turned out most of the dresses, gowns and coats for Vogues...
Died. Flush, 7, cocker spaniel who played in The Barretts of Wimpole Street with Katharine Cornell for four years without ever, in 709 performances, missing his cue to give a squeaky, ingratiating bark; in Actress Cornell's home; at Sneden's Landing...
Galloping down Mass. Avenue expecting to find cheering celebrants grouped around the Revolutionary flagpole in the Square, William Dawes, the Cambridge Paul Revere missed his cue yesterday. The motley crowd of Patriots' Day paraders had not arrived, and so, making a detour, had to return a second time to receive his deserved ovation...