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Skewered on Political Columnist Frank Kent's agile pen, a WPA pressagent named Hugh Amick and his New Deal employers were roasted for three days last week in the Baltimore Sun. Into the hands of Pundit Kent, who mortally hates & fears the New Deal's spending policies, had fallen releases by Pressagent Amick describing three camps for girls established in Kansas with some of the 50,000,000 Work Relief dollars set aside by President Roosevelt "to do something for the nation's unemployed Youth" (TIME, July 8). Largely by quotation, Pundit Kent drew the following picture...
Concluded Pundit Kent: "No one can read Mr. Amick's account without wondering what is to happen when the $50,000,000 gives out; how, once started, the Government is ever to get out of this business of being the national nurse maid...
Columnist Kent offered no answers to his questions...
...obscure Congressional agency is the House Committee on the Library, which is responsible for the maintenance of the Library of Congress, the erection of monuments to famed individuals. Impatiently last week Illinois' Representative Kent Ellsworth Keller as Library Committee Chairman was waiting for Congress to reassemble so that he might clear his office of encumbrances and settle a vexing artistic problem...
Royal E. Robbins, of Boston, Milton Academy; Richard F. P. Smith, of Cambridge, Country Day School; David S. Stevens, of Lisbon, N. H., Phillips Exeter Academy; James L. Tyson, of New York City, Kent School; and Lucien Wulsin, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio, St. George's School...