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After two years of talking about it, Congress last June appropriated $585,000 to fix the roof. While Congressmen snoozed, debated, passed bills and paid no further heed to the danger hanging heavy over their heads, Architect Lynn anxiously waited for a chance to move in and erect temporary steel props. That job will take five or six weeks. If Congress ever decided to stay away for six months, he would tear off the whole roof, build...
...best we can, and attempt neither to hide nor to exaggerate our fears. Many experienced observers of the recent European tragedy have sounded the alarm for the United States. Each one of us, all the citizens of the country, must decide to what extent we as a nation should heed the warnings. We must balance the probabilities. We must weigh the consequences of action or inaction. And though time is pressing, we must come to our decision by the process of free debate. For in a democracy no drastic step can be taken with hope of ultimate success unless public...
TIME had better take heed of the fate of the Literary Digest as a result of the misinformation supplied by it in its anti-Roosevelt stand. . . . I, for one, shall not renew my subscription...
...sleep there nightly on payment of the usual subway fee of three ha'pence (about 3?) last week began turning out their own typed news sheet, The Swiss Cottager. "There's too much litter at the all clear," said The Cottager. "Dustbins are provided! Please heed this request-our last and only territorial demand...
This was one Roosevelt measure which Republican Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir welcomed. He even thought it overdue. Moving his never-lit cigar from mouth to desk, he glowered: "It is too bad that the Administration did not see fit to heed the repeated warnings of businessmen against the continuous, large-scale exportation of scrap. . . . Even now, since the embargo is not effective until Oct. 16, exportations can continue for more than two weeks. With scrap-steel stocks already so badly depleted, I can see no justification for the delay...