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...among their constituents do not like it. In order to get more money out of Congress and to launch a new plan for lending $50,000,000 a year to help tenant farmers buy their homes, Dr. Tugwell hoped to get RA transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Only flaw in the plan was that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace did not want to take the responsibility of turning Dreamer Tugwell loose with so much money...
...days when young people learned memory-gems, instead of knock-knocks, there was one which comes to mind today- "Judge not . . . the working of his inmost heart thou canst not see. What seems to our dim eyes a flaw may only be a scar, brought from some well fought field where we would only faint and yield...
Critics found many a flaw last week in It Can't Happen Here as a piece of dramaturgy. Despite its faults, it is a serviceable and occasionally terrifying presentation of Sinclair Lewis' thesis that the rubber-truncheon and concentration-camp sort of Fascism is a creeping disease and not a sudden explosion. Called to a Manhattan stage for a speech after last week's first performance, Author Lewis appeared, looked at his watch, barked: "I've been making a speech since seven minutes to nine," and vanished into the wings...
...Ipswich the judge who will hear the Simpson suit this week is jovial, golfing Sir John Anthony Hawke, who was for five years attached to the present King in the capacity of Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Assuming that Sir John grants the divorce, any technical flaw in this decision can be discovered only by another of Edward VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges...
...attempt to froth a happy ending over Ramona's widow-weeds is not a major flaw. The picture is so pictorially arresting it might almost do without a story. Dark cottonwoods and yellow wheat, the greens and reds and rolling con-tours of the San Jacinto mountains where it was filmed, spread themselves out for the technicolor camera like a war-chief's blanket. Historically accurate since there has been little change in the landscape since 1870, Ramona pours its eye-filling opulence through many frames: Ramona's wedding breakfast, the horse race at the Fiesta, Alesandro...