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...Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies decided to hold a competition for a poster to help publicize its work. The Committee was promptly swamped by some 1,000 entries. Last week the Committee put 90 of them on exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted. Its simple motto: "Lest we regret. . . ." Its painter: Manhattan freelance Commercial Artist Arthur...
...railroad shares. Long familiar facts: a third of U. S. railroad mileage is insolvent or in the courts. Another third operates in a twilight zone halfway between receivership and solvency, periodically sparked by RFC handouts. Only the top third of U. S. rails (some of them, like the gilt-edged Union Pacific, heartbreakers to earlier generations of stockholders) pay steady dividends...
...various departmental requests; hence the wrangling. For his restraint, Tugwell earned a back-pat from the City Comptroller, short, roly-poly Joseph McGoldrick, Tugwell's ex-colleague on the Columbia faculty. Having taken New York City out of hock to the bankers, and given its bonds a gilt-edged status, McGoldrick wants to keep his credit rating. But Tugwell was thinking about something else...
...every Term III Democrat: it traversed the plush gloom and sombre elegance of the old red-brick Blackstone Hotel; down the red-carpeted marble corridors to a spacious sitting room of candy-striped chairs, a crystal chandelier, a plumed, bustled lady of the English Regency, framed in the pink-&-gilt fireplace, delicately offering all comers a symbolic prize-a prickly rose. In this room operated dapper young Vic Sholis, Hopkins' secretary, and soft-spoken David K. Niles, the Janizariat's undercover man, who engineered the biggest financial coup of the 1936 campaign by wangling...
...foreign press assembled in the gaudy scarlet-gilt-ivory conference room of the Propaganda Ministry and to the radio world at large, Rosenberg proclaimed a Nazi-dominated "Community of Fate" embracing Sweden, Norway and Denmark. "Fate," he declared, "so willed it that the German Reich has taken under its protection the entire territory from which once the German peoples migrated." Urging the Scandinavian countries, two of which are already Nazi-occupied, to appreciate the honor of German domination, he continued: "A small nation does not violate its honor when it places itself under the protection of a larger nation...