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Directors of the Whitney Museum did not know whether they were more tickled over their sensational new indirect lighting system, their four new rooms, a new central staircase and widened halls, or the 118 paintings, 53 pieces of sculpture, 31 water colors, 29 drawings and 57 prints by 20th Century American artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey...
...before: Crusades, the Japanese against Communism, the Spanish Catholic Church against Communism. But this war was being fought, as no war had ever been fought before, to keep a country together against the black forces of paganism. And it was up to 4,000,000 men aided by the indirect action of some Allies, to do the job. "The Army," said Edward Smigly-Rydz once, "is the national glue...
Holding them up all this time, said Prime Minister Chamberlain last week, were conflicting definitions of "indirect aggression"-i.e., a Nazi coup in Latvia, Estonia, or other states which may be guaranteed against aggression by the pact. France, Great Britain and Russia all wanted to avoid giving the impression that they were "encroaching upon the independence" of the guaranteed countries. France and Great Britain felt that the Russian proposals could be interpreted in this way. But, he added, all three realize that "indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression and all three desire to find a satisfactory...
...would be chiefly blamed. He outlined a "threeyear plan" for return to "a liberal-capitalist economy" by stimulating private industry. The 40-hour week, darling of former Premier Blum's Popular Front, was abolished. The ordinary budget (exclusive of emergency arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until May. The recovery program pinched almost everyone, but the most anguished cries came...
...hence will be less directly influential. But if coaches can see the "sport for sport's sake" ideal of the plan, they will fit into their new niches in much the same manner, at least in the individual sports, as club professionals. Their tenure will be secure, and their indirect influence vastly greater than at present...