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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt a liberal? Pfuey! Not even appraised by the flimsy connotations which still cling to the word is he one. He is a rock-ribbed conservative when the reference is to his own, to what he has struggled to get hold of; and so is every other man. So is John L. Lewis, so is Browder. Each and every one of them has on occasion clawed and bitten and beat the stairs, yelling foul, when thoughtless "liberals" have sought to divide up their powers, perquisites and glories. If there is any meaning left in the word "liberal," 1938 style...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt had a date to address a high-school graduating class in northern West Virginia-at Arthurdale, the subsistence homestead community closest to her heart. But in her husband's chest welled up something which he wanted to get off to all the People. He announced that he would fill Mrs. Roosevelt's engagement, using a national radio hookup. Before he left Washington last week, newshawks knew what was on his chest: the 1938 Tax Bill, still lying unsigned, un-vetoed at the White House...
...Iowa's Guy Mark Gillette, Otha Wearin was encouraged when that handsome statesman fell into bad repute with the White House by voting against the President's Supreme Court bill last year. He was further encouraged by certain Administration lieutenants who believed that if they could get a Wearin nominated for the Senate in so pivotal a State as Iowa, it would put the fear of F. D. R. into Democratic Senators even more recalcitrant than Gillette...
Possible concentrators who have had no Physics B Freshman year in order to get into course C, and Math A is required for admittance into Math 2. Many other courses outside the field are suggested, including Chemistry A for all men. Geology, Economics and Fine Arts are recommended depending on the student's line of interest...
...both suffer shoddy competition from certain departments also interested in movie work. Since the Service has no central control, because it lacks official support, these departments are free to purchase movie equipment. Not only are they unable to buy the best, but they make little use of what they get. Most instructors, too, have no knowledge of how to operate such equipment. Eliminating this duplication of effort would mean that the Service could produce a picture free of charge, exclusive of cost of film and of the laboratory work--which is almost negligible...