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Prepared for these gentlemen to frown over and approve was an indictment of the South's condition as to markets, freight rates, capital, absentee ownership, farm earnings, health, education, soil abuse, fertilizer, power, etc., etc. The gentlemen solemnly "agreed" to it all, adding Wages & Hours as a point of their own to be considered. Then they left Washington apparently leaving it up to Director Mellett to frame their "report to the President...
...Frown for Hague. Before he concluded, with a Chinese homily, Franklin Roosevelt did something his "liberal" friends have been wishing he would do for some weeks. Indirectly yet unmistakably, he frowned on the Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, whose suppression of C. I. O. and Communists has earned him national fame as a foe of civil liberties. Said the head of the Democratic Party...
They always notice it. They always frown when they see boys living differently than they used to live; they always snort when they see men teaching things they were not taught. Their gifts to Harvard made this possible, and still they resent it. It is probably because every change makes them feel just that much less at home, and that annoys them. Then they see some classmates is the distance and they forget their annoyance. And together they all go into the Yard. Sometimes they don't even notice the legend over the gateway: "Enter to learn...
...people's taste is pretty good, Proven Pictures' president says. They go for historical pictures, clean comedy, and musicals; they frown on Westerns, G-man pictures, and violent death in any from. Their favorite comedians are the Ritzes; for sheer drama they prefer Paul Muni and Barbara Stanwyck. But Jeanette MacDonald's "Naughty Marietta" holds the record; it has come back fifteen times...
...study or his Warm Springs cottage. Seldom does anything exciting come of these meetings, for reporters realize that it is not cricket to harry the President of the U. S. with too-pointed questions, and Franklin Roosevelt knows full well how to shut down on such questions with a frown or a laugh. But because the President's responses may not be quoted directly (without his special permission), the secret minutes of those meetings have a certain fascination for the public. Last week the President released a few of the stenographic records, and retaliated on the many reporters...