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Some Congressmen think the President has been needled into baiting them by the White House Inner Circle: Harry Hopkins, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter et al. Last week they were privately blaming the ideas in the tax veto message on Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, the words on Judge Rosenman. The facts: the message was no hastily okayed product of a Presidential ghost, no result of a sudden fit of Presidential temper. Mr. Roosevelt had been poring over the document for more than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson...
...about 700 years, magnetism has been known as the force that stands still. Last week a physicist claimed to have proved that magnetism moves. Professor Felix Ehrenhaft, formerly of Vienna, told the American Physical Society meeting in Manhattan that magnetism flows as electricity flows. If he is right, his discovery is at least as revealing as Benjamin Franklin's kite, and technology has a new horse to harness...
...discriminatory freight rates, the 1938 Purge. But the Southerners' anger is also compounded of resentment against long-continued rebuffs and slights. And their passion is fiercely personal, not only against the President but even more bitterly against the White House inner circle-Harry Hopkins, Dave Niles, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter-whose group tactlessness in dealing with Congress has long been notorious...
...Died. Felix Philip Vaccaro, 77, youngest of New Orleans' famed, fruit-rich Vaccaro brothers; after long illness; in New Orleans. With his brothers Joseph and the late Lucca, bull-necked Felix built a fortune of many millions on the basis of a schooner load of Honduran bananas. By the '30s the silent Italian trio were powers in (largely Louisianian) orange groves, ships, chemicals, banks, presses, oil, ice, hotels, real estate, insurance...
Died. Richard Chichester du Pont, 32, gliding champion of the '30s, special assistant on gliders to the Chief of the U.S. Air Forces; in a glider crash; near March Field, Calif. Son of A. Felix du Pont of the Delaware chemicals clan, he set several soaring records between 1933 and '39, was National Soaring champion for three years...