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...personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...
...pleased was Premier Benito Mussolini, who has been hotly demanding recognition of Franco and stirring up Italian editors to flay "Tony"' Eden, that last week the Dictator confiscated the entire edition of an Italian humorous weekly which had mildly cartooned "Tony." As the British Parliament adjourned to Oct. 21, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wrote and privately dispatched to II Duce a "personal letter of friendship...
...first opposition witness, had made his sensation with Chief Justice Hughes's letter refuting the argument that the Court is overburdened (TIME, March 29)-a point on which the President's warmest supporters heartily wish that he had rejected his Attorney General's advice. Come to flay his old chief's plan, onetime No. 1 Brain Truster Raymond Moley next day cried, "The institutions of democracy grow and strengthen only through their use. Let us make democracy work by working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend and amend than pack...
...chiming of ten o'clock. That worthy master of slaves, my tutor, sends me to sit in on lectures at the most ill-advised times of the day and night. A stop in the hall to glance at the morning paper and surprised to see the quarrelsome Republicans still flay our popular President. How they groan and tear their hair when they think that Mr. Roosevelt will lead the next Congress around by the ears, like a stable-boy at a Scotch tavern. And into my head march the jolly lines of those talented gentlemen, Messers. Gilbert & Sullivan...
...Washington tart-tongued WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, who loves to flay Republicans for dragging Politics into Relief, snapped: "Republicans will be in a tough spot if they really want to cut down expenditures by 'taking it out of the politicians' instead of the needy. But of course they won't try to do that. What they really want to do is to cut relief costs by taking it out of the hides of the needy...