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...Those who have wrongly assumed that Mr. Roosevelt is a spotless knight-errant of progressivism have acquired the habit of blaming subordinates for actions which they dislike. ... As a matter of fact the President is personally responsible for more that goes on in his administration than those friendly critics often suspect. . . . Foreign policy [is] an example. . . . The concessions of his administration to expediency in foreign affairs might have been expected in view of similar concessions in domestic affairs...
Goodspeed now lives in Bel-Air, near the University of California, where he has been lecturing on his pet subject. He still clings to his habit of reading detective stories. He once wrote a readable one: Curse in the Colophon...
Western Electric at Kearny, N.J. has a new wrinkle for recruiting woman power: the resonant want ad. Housewives, not in the habit of reading want ads, hear their radios telling of Western Electric's needs at its Kearny factory. Over WOR, department representatives describe vacancies, explain qualifications, stress the importance of women relieving men for the fighting forces. Ex-housewives tell of earning while learning. Results: a weekly average of 30 housewives put to work for Western Electric...
...Grant does not describe the smell of Calcutta, the Indian habit of throwing garbage and excrement out of windows, the children running loose with smallpox nor the more or less constant state of semifamine in some sections. But his criticisms are grim enough...
Although she has more or less given up the world of the New York theatre following her experience with New York policemen after the Little Flower closed her tragedy, "Wine, Women, and Song," Margie has acquired the New York habit of gum-chewing, and chows most gracefully while she talks...