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Conceited, sure of his own ideas, fond of his own voice, he reads aloud everything he writes, wakes up friends to recite his poetry over the telephone. Impudent, he has mercilessly ridiculed the ideas of his superior, Chicago's metaphysical young President Robert Maynard Hutchins, made sport of his colleagues in the Legislature by speaking in allegories, in one of which Boss Kelly figured as a rat, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen as a mosquito. When an opponent praised him for his eloquence, he retorted: "Just liquid vowels." Ambitious, he won a big radio audience outside Illinois...
Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...
...week. If he wins then or later, he will owe thanks to two friends of Franklin Roosevelt who refused to play their part in the Presidential purge: Mayor Burnet R. Maybank of Charleston, leading candidate for Governor, and South Carolina's junior Senator James ("Jimmy") Byrnes. They are fond of "Cotton Ed." and they know he cannot live forever. If he dies with his Senatorial boots on. Mr. Maybank may slip into them and Jimmy Byrnes (who, coming from Spartanburg, would be embarrassed if Spartanburg's Olin Johnston became South Carolina's other Senator) will be senior...
...army nickname of General Cárdenas,' and with a grim, silent, unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying, and today he is neither Fascist nor Communist nor Socialist-just a Mexican who will naturally skin any gringos he can and who devotes his life to bettering, by fair means or foul, the lot of his own people, the Indians. Recently he boasted: "The great masses of the Mexican...
...advertising. It maintains a clearinghouse for advertising slogans, now has 7,500 on file. Its Readers' Service answers 300 questions a week, provides P. I.'s editors with an insight into the problems of advertisers. To the irrepressible, sometimes irresponsible, advertiser, P. I. has been a fond but strict mother. At the instigation of John Irving Romer, editor of P. I. from 1908 until his death in 1933, a model statute, making untrue or misleading advertising a mis demeanor, was drawn up in 1911. Today the model is law in 25 States...