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Based on reliefs, wall paintings, and actual masks found in Pompeii and other ancient cities, these masks are humorous exaggerations, of types found as much today as in ancient Rome; the prodigal son, the stern father, the money-lender, and the clever and stupid slaves...
...Professional. The New Deal's head of the Treasury is a scientific farmer. The New Deal's lender of money is a successful promoter from Texas. But the New Deal's giver of relief is a professional giver of relief. Father Hopkins was a retail leather merchant in Sioux City and Mother Hopkins was a devout Methodist, an active member of the Iowa Home Missionary Society. Harry ("Hi"), 43, the third of their five children, takes after neither. Like his elder sister Adah (now selling insurance in Manhattan) and his elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked...
...Demanded cancellation of interest on Bonus loans. Lender the law of 1931 veterans have borrowed $1,500,000,000 at interest rates varying from 6% to 3½%. Abolition of interest charges would save them some $50,000,000 a year. This resolution, the only one on which radicals and conservatives were in complete agreement, was adopted by a rousing viva voce vote on the convention floor. A legislative lobby will attempt to put it through the next session of Congress...
...construction delays, the Public Works Administrator declared: "All we can do is to ask you to 'Get on your mark! Get set! Go!' We can give you the money but we can't make you borrow it from us. ... We're more liberal than any lender on a large scale since the beginning of the world but we're not dropping taxpayers' money into the hat of a blind...
...critics with facts. . . . 'That every bank should sell stock to the R. F. C. is sheer nonsense. Apparently we are going to get a black mark if we don't apply for something whether we want it or not. The R. F. C. is not a liberal lender. If it wants to do something for the banks who have borrowed, let it release the excess collateral it has taken and reduce the interest charged on its loans." Appealed to on the grounds of patriotism, the A. B. A. as a whole could not give so blunt an answer...