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...erred. Mr. Roosevelt had said very clearly that the BEW henceforth was to "determine the policies [and] plans . . . with respect to the procurement and production [of materials abroad]." The order had given a boost to Vice President Wallace, Milo Perkins, and their BEW; had thrown State into a dignified dither. The upstart BEW seemed to have been authorized to rush into State's well-kept gardens, trample State's delicate diplomatic plants abroad...
...have no single general style to use as a critical yardstick, and have to depend largely on our instinctive reactions. When, therefore, out of the common welter of academic modernism, music with Szostakowicz's internal strength and broad emotional appeal comes to light, then there is a mighty dither among critics and listeners alike, and the heavy-duty-adjectives are brought into play. On the whole, however, I think that his music justifies his reputation...
...East 79th Street, and is rated by experts as the most comprehensive of its kind in the U.S. Without children, 58-year-old, redheaded Chester Dale will probably leave his masterpieces to some big U.S. museum. The question of which one has got hungry U.S. museum directors into a dither...
Whether or not Yale should offer athletic scholarships has all New Haven in a dither, according to a poll recently conducted by the Yale Daily News. Over two-thirds of the New Haven townspeople are in favor of the move...
When Lapointe in an answering speech said that she kept "very bad company," implied that she was a Communist fellow traveler, Mrs. Nielsen rose on a point of privilege, made a speech that threw the House into a howling dither...