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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only loud voice ever raised against his performance was that of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's raucous, Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune. After two straight weeks of vilification by the Tribune, Administrator Hunter called in 19 reporters including one from the Tribune, gave the Tribune a thoroughgoing tongue-lashing for "filthy editorializing" and "vicious propaganda." handed out a 25-page memorandum of specific rebuttals to the Tribune'?, charges including the news that one of the Tribune's WPA-baiting reporters had been suspended by WPA for drunkenness, fired for negligence (TIME...
...division. Harry Hopkins knew Florence Kerr 30 years ago when both attended Grinnell College, where she later taught, where her husband is now assistant to the president. He knew her again after the War, when both worked for the Red Cross in Louisiana. Howard Hunter has known her well ever since 1935, when Harry Hopkins picked her out of State relief work in Iowa, put her at Hunter's elbow in Chicago running the women's division of WPA's Region...
Ohio. In his second week as Governor, John W. Bricker (successor to Democrat Martin Davey) had fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
...born in Belgium in 1863, but came to the United States where he graduated from M. I. T., and has lived here ever since. He became a professor of Metallurgy here in 1905. He received many honorary degrees including an Sc. D. from Harvard in 1935, on which occasion President Conant said of him; "Long famous as a founder of the science of metallurgy, a Harvard professor of whose achievements we shall be forever proud...
...vagaries of motion-picture booking, usually in a hateful conspiracy against movie patrons, have produced something unique at Keith's: a double bill with two pictures in the "best" category. "The Lady Vanishes" is one of the finest things ever to come from England. It is a directorial masterpiece, for Alfred Hitchcock has taken discouraging material--an ordinary spy mystery--and has, characteristically, brewed from it a tense, gripping drama. With his uncanny skill in ordering the presentation of his material, he succeeds in building up punishing suspense, and, moreover, manages to do what few, if any, other directors...