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...Relief Administration raised a storm. It announced that it was going to cut WPA expenditures to $152,000.000 a month, try to cut 150,000 reliefers off the rolls, make local governments pay a larger share of WPA costs. The U. S. Conference of Mayors went into a dither, reliefers staged sit-down strikes, and Harry Hopkins had quickly to back water, announcing, "No one who needs Relief will be dropped" (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week when the House received the Deficiency Bill appropriating Relief funds for the next five months, it transpired that Mr. Hopkins planned on cuts which...
...Ipswich police were even more in a dither. They gave away the secret of how Mrs. Simpson was to arrive by practicing elaborately in front of Ipswich Courthouse. Inside last week, plagued with a bad cough and a runny nose, was Mr. Justice Hawke before whom Mrs. Simpson was to accuse Mr. Simpson of carrying on with "Buttercup." It was considered a good sign for Mrs. Simpson when Mr. Justice Hawke, after emitting a loud sneeze, snapped at a lawyer who was pleading another case: "Don't talk so much! I have already made up my mind." Sporting...
...digging up phonograph records of Presidential broadcasts to recall to listeners, in full verisimilitude of tone and voice, Franklin Roosevelt's promises in times past. Mean time Columbia Broadcasting officials who discovered what was going to happen only ten minutes before it began happening, had gone into a dither. Hastily they found a reason for not broadcasting the GOProgram: Columbia has a rule against broadcasting "electrically transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement of cancellation but their reception of the "Mystery Chat" continued...
...hour approached for Chemist Seydel to present his paper formally before his colleagues, officials of the Society were in a dither. Chemist Leech, as a member of the Society, insisted upon being present. As an employe of the American Medical Association he insisted that the session be secret. The A. M. A. attitude that no one should know anything at all about anything which might not be good for him prevailed. The chemists bowed to the doctors, and for the first time in the 60 years of the American Chemical Society's history locked its doors against the public...
...last filial duties. On the boat from Marseilles Saul meets Andrew Jordan, a "brilliantly second-rate," phenomenally successful playwright. In their very first conversation Andrew's shiny sophistication crumples before the hypnotic sincerity of Saul; by the time they reach Miramar Andrew is in a dither to do something first-rate and make Saul admire...