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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week, readers of the Philadelphia Record, who are constantly being told to love, honor & obey the New Deal, were startled to find in their paper a full-page advertisement entitled THE RAKE'S PROGRESS, or The United States is wasting its substance in riotous extravagance. Excerpt: "WOODROW WILSON and Franklin D. Roosevelt, however admirable their qualities, nevertheless divide the distinction of standing forth as the Coal-Oil Johnnies of American politics. . . . Before the times of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States had practically NO NATIONAL DEBT. Now we have a formidable National debt...
...they also had practically no news. At Addis Ababa most of the reporters are crowded into the barnlike Imperial Hotel. Nights are so cold, sleeping bags are indispensable. Best description of life in Addis Ababa was sent last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Linton Wells. Excerpt...
Dated Aug. 26, Publisher Howard's letter fairly oozed personal friendship, while setting up certain familiar criticisms of the Administration for the President in his reply to knock down. Excerpt...
Hugh Samuel Johnson printed in his Scripps-Howard column a letter he received from Mrs. Elizabeth Mead Johnson, 79, "a nice old lady in the Middle West." Excerpt...
...neglected genius" who three times almost became Poet Laureate; after brief illness; in Sussex, England. Best known as a lyricist for his sonnets and elegies, Poet Watson derived his greatest fame from a lampoon of Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, entitled: "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue." Excerpt...