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...South." So the President made the rounds of its schools. He saw Vanderbilt University and Ward-Belmont. At Fisk the famed Negro choir sang "Down by the Riverside" for him. At the request of Secret Service men, the George Peabody College for Teachers clipped its shrubbery back lest it conceal an assassin...
...sensitive ear to the country's reaction to their policies. They should at all costs avoid the danger of rejuvenating the outworn spoils system as they face the problem of allocating federal funds. From the point of view of expediency rather than of morals, they should take care lest they succumb to the temptation of interpreting the recent victory as an indication of desire for dictatorship...
What may really be lamentable, and closer home, is that so many citizens of our own country show this same deadly suspicion of the ultra-liberal professorial class, called into the Brain Trust and other high posts to save us lest we perish. The result, so far, seems to be that each is so right the other can be but wrong...
...Treasury. The New Deal has promised and paid over $2,000,000,000 in relief to some 4,000,000 families. It is distributing hundreds of millions to farmers under AAA, billions under PWA contracts. It has put 100,000 new political officeholders on the Federal payroll. Lest these benefactions be forgotten the Democratic National Committee has compiled a list of the New Deal's cash donations to every state, to election districts. Said oldtime Democrat James A. Reed of Missouri, speaking last week in Detroit...
...virtues were intoned: ''Courage! . . " soldierly simplicity! ... determination!" As the organ swelled a moving Orthodox dirge, sobs grew loud throughout the Cathedral. Scarcely able to stand as she left the service. Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia tottered in the arms of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Lest one or both should break down on the grueling three-mile funeral march a Ford sedan was held in readiness...