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...these are a "psychological experiment" in which the children are allowed to make friends with a white rabbit, then informed that he will be cooked for their lunch; a pageant, in which the morose urchin selected to act as king has to have fleas combed out of his hair lest he upset his crown by scratching; Marie's effort to commit suicide when, after seeing Rose leave with the doctor, she thinks herself abandoned again...
...publisher of the Houston Chronicle, Jesse Jones long ago promised that RFC would make no newspaper investments, lest the New Deal be suspected of trying to control the U. S. Press. Month ago RFC secretly acquired a third of the Tennessean's outstanding bonds from a defunct New Orleans bank which had put them up as collateral for a Federal loan. After denying the transaction for weeks, RFC sold the bonds last week for their purchase price-$200,000-to President Paul Maclin Davis of American National Bank, which already held another $250,000 of the bonds. What made...
...Franklin Roosevelt's mistakes. To date he stands broadly for Economy and the Constitution. He advocates social justice without the New Deal, an agricultural export subsidy for the Farmers instead of AAA, collective bargaining for Labor without the coercion of the Wagner Bill. An old fox runs slowly, lest in his agitation his sweat leave a stronger trail for his pursuers. Somewhat on this principle, it was the pre-War fashion for aspirants to the Presidential nomination to proceed quietly in the early stages of the race. But if the highly successful premature activities of Mr. Hoover...
...stiff session with the Federal money bag, he passed out $322,000,000 worth of local work relief allotments among a crowd of favor-seekers who were frantic lest he depart on his four-week journey without taking care of them...
...Benes enjoys the particular friendship of new British Foreign Minister Sir Samuel Hoare and his newsorgan picked up in London a story peculiarly embarrassing to Austria's extremely pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg who simply could not let Austrians read it lest he become a national laughing stock...