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...behest of Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Dean Landis had been over all the ground in the Bridges case once before. For eleven weeks in San Francisco last summer he presided at a hearing to determine whether alien, unnaturalized Mr. Bridges: 1) was a Red; 2) as such, belonged to a party which preached violent overthrow of the U. S. Government; 3) could therefore be deported from California to Australia, where he was born...
...General Sherman said: 'Madam, you got spunk'"). Last week Atlanta was more self-conscious of its present and its past than any other U. S. town...
...scientists have a story about the social scientist who measured the intelligence of convicts in prison. He found it just as high as the intelligence of the civil population, delivered a popular lecture on his finding. A woman in the audience got up and asked him what intelligence was. "Madam," said the scientist loftily, "intelligence is that which these measurements measure...
...neat anomaly was to be found last week in the statistics of 1939's war boom. In October the Federal Reserve production index reached 120, past its 1937 peak of 118. Yet October employment (up 1,250,000 from 1938, according to Madam Secretary Perkins) was down by more than 1,000,000 men from 1937's peak...
...with Elmer Andrews went his playwriting Deputy Administrator Paul Sifton and an executive assistant, George McEwen. Summarily fired by Madam Perkins, without the usual two-week notice, was Elmer Andrews' secretary and right-hand woman, handsome Eugenia Pope. Efficient, 33-year-old Miss Pope did much to make life bearable for her boss, fending off importunate callers and imposing order in an office not always noted for order. Miss Pope quickly got offers from other Federal bureaus and private business. Luckless Mr. Andrews, who gave up a $12,000-a-year job with New York State to take...