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...decentralizing its administration. Take it out of the hands of wasters and politicians and put it back into nonpolitical committees in each community and require the States and local communities to find 5 or 10% of the cost. That will provide greater and more sympathetic care for those in distress. It will restore confidence that the republic is not being destroyed by the purchase of elections...
widowed 24-year-old socialite who sometimes sings in nightclubs and is the daughter of Oilman James Andrew Moffett, filed a bankruptcy petition in Manhattan. Listing liabilities of $9,961 and assets of $1,800 (including two Sealyham dogs valued at $200), she blamed her financial distress on a spending spree. Said she: "I guess I was too fond of buying clothes...
...with are not idealists and sentimentalists, but cold, hardheaded. ruthless, determined men. . . . Such men are more easily impressed by high explosives than by high objectives. "We are not our brother's keeper and we cannot go running about all over Europe like a knight-errant rescuing damsels in distress. It is not our job to play the part of an amiable Don Quixote...
...peace! . . . She is ready, however, to give her last man for honor and existence!";* 5) high-powered dwelling by the Dictator upon what he insists has been the plight of Austria and Vienna: "The State of Austria represented from the outset a State completely unable to live. The economic distress was correspondingly dreadful and the people's mortality figure rose in the most fearful manner. In Vienna alone last year out of 100,000 births there were 20,000 fatalities.† I don't say this because I believe I could impress the self-righteous citizens...
...communities in the TVA area. To this Mr. Willkie, who last year dramatically begged the Government to buy his properties instead of ruining them, replied that he would be "delighted" to negotiate for his companies if they would be bought as "going concerns" and not piecemeal or at distress rates. But the terms, suggested equally shrewd Mr. Willkie, should be set by an independent committee, in view "of the recent newspaper reports of a diversity of opinion as to policy within the TVA." Mr. Willkie's suggestions for committeemen: President Clarence A. Dykstra of the University of Wisconsin, President...