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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the U. S. Army was a peacetime starveling, this Kilkenny cat-spat was just another bureaucratic brawl. With war abroad, rearmament aswing, and the Army in expensive expansion, the case of Woodring v. Johnson is now a stench in Washington. Last week Franklin Roosevelt took a look at the war in his War Department, let the public have a peek, and, after a year's scandalous delay seemed to be about to end it. Up to last week he actually did no more about it than he had since he first turned mild little Mr. Woodring...
Discredited Mr. Johnson canceled an engagement to address the American Legion in Chicago (see p. 17) and dashed to Washington, where his colleagues were waiting to see whether he would resign. When he showed himself at the War Department, he did not act or look like a whipped pup in the doghouse. He apparently had a chance to subside into the War Department's No. 2 position, no discernible chance to replace Harry Woodring when & if the President finds a satisfactory successor. Attorney General Frank Murphy was offered the War portfolio, turned it down. An oft-mentioned possibility...
...went out in the last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going to get international decency. Boy, look at the damn thing...
...more Chinese names which look almost as interchangeable as rifle parts (see col. 1) and both of which were in the news last week are Wang Ching-wei and Wang Chung-hui. Their owners would make as ill-fitting an interchange as the triggers of a crossbow and a Mauser. Wang Chung-hui is a patriot, Wang Ching-wei a traitor. Patriot Wang is naive, legalistic, bureaucratic, in office (Foreign Minister). Traitor Wang is sophisticated, old-style, political, out of office (onetime Premier, waiting to become Japan's super-puppet...
Common denominator of U. S. ceramists is whimsy. Sculpture at the show ranged from Viktor Schreckengost's Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, three haloed Negroes smiling down at the flames, to Sascha Brastoff's boneless, bulbous, button-mouthed females, Emergence and Timid Maiden (see cut), who look like a pair of praying mantises. Ceramist Brastoff's figures, tastefully mounted on bases of grey velvet and satin, won a sculpture prize. Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus...