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...been organized, the question arises, "What is the function of such a Council?" Naturally, it is the more eager concentrators who form such a body, and it somehow works out that the more eager are the more radical. There is thus danger that the Council may gather together a fervid little knot of propagandists, eager for the Call, and bent on missionary work among the economic heathens. Any insistence on generally unaccepted doctrines would be bound to alienate great numbers of potentially valuable followers, and would end in futility. The harder but wiser course is for the Council...
...fervid Buchmanite rushed to the platform and handed up a sheet of paper bearing a campaign song...
Planning to outdo the elephant show at Cleveland where vanquished rivals joined in seconding Nominee Landon, Showman Farley had arranged for every state to second Roosevelt's renomination. That meant 48 speeches plus nine more from non-voting areas. It meant more than eight hours of fervid oratory in praise of Franklin Roosevelt. Toward midnight Chairman Robinson requested speakers to be brief but West Virginia's Senator Neely insisted on delivering a full-length speech, to which no one listened. Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines did his duty in ten words: "The Philippine Islands gratefully second...
...could gauge their credibility on the witness stand (TIME, June 11). After this false start, it took nearly two months to hear the flesh & blood evidence both sides marched to the stand-the tales of union and non-union employes, the testimony of other great steelmasters, the fervid pleas of opposing counsel. Nothing seemed too trivial for Judge Nields to listen to with painstaking care...
...more fervid believer in developing "regional art " than Grant Wood. Long before Public Works Art Project started the Government's $1,408,381 program to give work to more than 3,000 artists. Wood had established his own Iowa art colony in Stone City. There for little more than $50 an artist could live and learn for a six-week session. When PWAP was established Wood became its Iowa leader, taught Iowa artists to paint the "U. S. scene "?prime purpose of PWAP. Today he is trying to continue the work PWAP started. He and a group of students...