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When he took office Franklin D. Roosevelt may have hoped that his political honeymoon could be made to last forever. Few new Presidents had hoped for less. For a full twelve months he successfully held Congress in a state of passionate adoration. The country at large got the firm-fixed impression that he was invincible, that he was destined to go through one term and probably two the complete master of himself and Washington. But last week brought two events in close succession which showed that even a Franklin D. Roosevelt cannot win a family fight every time...
...have made her forget how to speak English. 2) A woman too intelligent not to know she is being made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity. 7) A shopgirl famed among her friends for repartee, whose favorite shaft...
...Labor's honeymoon with the present Administration is definitely over. The workingman was given a substantial lift but that push did not suffice to bring the country out of the depression, so now he may expect nothing but rebuffs. It is now the entrepreneur's turn to be listened to. It was possible for a new Administration, filled with idealism and brain trusts, to force some concessions down the delicate throats of the industrialists. But that this could continue in a laissez-faire system where power in synonymous with wealth, in inconceivable. Any permanent concessions to labor must...
Chirped happy Mrs. Goodman, before starting to dress for a honeymoon trip to San Francisco: "I married this way because I like the simplicity and freedom...
...Last Stand," in which Hindus indicates quite shrewdly the reasons why Protestantism was doomed almost from the beginning. It was nurtured during the early days of the Revolution because of its antagonism toward the Greek Catholic Church whose grip the Bolsheviks were intent upon breaking; but the honeymoon was soon ended. For it became cleared as the Protestant movement developed that its emphasis on the priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence of God before the State...