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...score of Jews took up the cry. Jewish mothers clawed their way through the crowd, pried well-slobbered candy out of their children's mouths, turned on the candy-giver. The kindly woman saw a rim of angry faces, felt slaps, blows, kicks, cuffs, scratches. A conductor leaped off his tramcar, went to her rescue. The crowd mauled him thoroughly. Soon the cobbles rang with mounted police. The Jews fell back a little, screaming for the woman's arrest. The police took her and her candy to the police station, found both quite harmless...
Having received funds from an anonymous giver to be used for the creation of two Research Fellowships for 1934-35 for men who have already received the Doctor's degree, the Department of Physics has selected two men for this honor. Dr. Edward C. Stevenson, of Richmond, Virginia, and Arthur C. Frost, of San Francisco, have been chosen from 40 candidates...
Last week for the first time the 73rd Congress turned Indian-giver on President Roosevelt. Last year, in the first flush of the New Deal, it had delegated to him enormous executive power to purge the veterans' pension roll and readjust government wages as a means of balancing the ordinary budget. Last week, under the lash of two of the most potent lobbies in Washington, it snatched back that power from the White House and returned pension reform to the pork barrel...
Before he started south, the President vetoed the bill and his veto was instantly overridden (310-to-72) by the House (TIME, April 2). Last week was the Senate's turn to be an Indian-giver. In a reasonable, sweet-tempered veto message the President had promised still further restorations of pensions to veterans for the sake of preserving his New Deal principle. Said he: "What you and I are seeking is justice and fairness. . . . It goes without saying that I shall not hesitate to make further changes if the principles of justice demand them. . . . My disapproval of this...
...Professional. The New Deal's head of the Treasury is a scientific farmer. The New Deal's lender of money is a successful promoter from Texas. But the New Deal's giver of relief is a professional giver of relief. Father Hopkins was a retail leather merchant in Sioux City and Mother Hopkins was a devout Methodist, an active member of the Iowa Home Missionary Society. Harry ("Hi"), 43, the third of their five children, takes after neither. Like his elder sister Adah (now selling insurance in Manhattan) and his elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked...