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President Roosevelt's fever came down (from 99.2° to normal). Back at his big desk again for a morning's work, he lunched with Wisconsin's trapmouthed Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr.
Whereupon everyone else's fever went up. For on April 2 some 750,000 voters in Wisconsin will swarm to polling-booths in a Presidential primary, will then & there settle the political hash of GOPresumptives Arthur Vandenberg or Thomas E. Dewey. Senator La Follette last week had become "Good...
But when "Judge" Smith got his committee hearings under way last December, New Dealers stopped smiling. Wily Mr. Smith, not pretending to be a Bob La Follette or Tom Walsh, had his committee sit mostly as spectators, while a far abler inquisitor, cobra-cold Edmund Toland, dredged from NLRB'...
Almost as phenomenal as his comic-strip career is Superman's vogue with U. S. youth. He appears in 77 U. S. dailies, 36 Sunday papers. With Superman its ace, the magazine Action Comics' net paid circulation has whooped since June 1938 from 130,000 to 800,000...
2. The La Follette probe of restrictions on civil liberties.