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...panel of generals and colonels. Also behind him was Poland's Parliament, 96 businessmen, professors, writers in the Senate, 208 bureaucrats in the Sejm, 304 yes-men chosen from a maze of political parties by a rigged system of electoral committees. This parliamentary front was assembled last week to enact emergency war measures...
...Walter H. Millinger. Earnest, antiquarian Parson Millinger held his first Father Moody Sunday in 1936 after running across his predecessor's fiery sermon. The idea has spread; now all Maine is digging up old sermons, redelivering them with period fixings. But even Pastor Millinger has yet to re-enact one custom of Father Moody's time: those who did not spend Sunday in church spent Monday in the stocks...
Conferee Harrison informed Franklin Roosevelt that: 1) he was going to get a tax bill whether he liked it or no, and 2) it would enact most of John Hanes's plan. Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau were discreetly reticent. Loyal Representative Bob Doughton squirmed so much that Pat Harrison told him not to worry, the Senate would write the bill. Franklin Roosevelt reddened, let Pat Harrison leave unrebuked, uncontradicted...
...that broadcasting makes for a purer art of the theatre, he continued, "Whereas the reactions of an audience may make or break a show on the stage, only comedians must have an active audience on the air. My weekly broadcasts are given without onlookers, for then I can re-enact a drama for its own sake. If people want to applaud, let them do so in their homes...
...Bryan had more ideas than McKinley. Debs had more ideas than Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt has more ideas than Coolidge had. They have ideas, but they do not seem to be able to make the ideas work. They can enact reforms, but they cannot give jobs...