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...friends he hinted slyly that it was autobiographical. Embarrassed critics, who had hailed the work as "pure music," complained that he was holding out on them. Wailed crotchety Britisher Ernest Newman: "With each new work of Strauss there is the same tomfoolery-one can use no milder word to describe proceedings that no doubt have a rude kind of German humor, but that strike other people as more than a trifle silly...
...Steel common down 10 points to 98, Chrysler down 6, Allied Chemical down 13, and the Dow-Jones industrial stock average down 6½ points, including the biggest single day's drop since July 26, 1934. Market observers saw in this no mere repetition of the milder reaction in April 1936, with which it had a curious day by day parallel. At week's end as stock prices leveled off on solid ground an air of ingenuous satisfaction was all too plain in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt had apparently done a good job of deflation by suggestion...
...there is one thing which the passage of time has not changed in Stillman. The nurses are still the tyrants they used to be, albeit their tyranny seems to be of a milder, more pleasant nature than years...
...studying some first-hand samples of the Nazi tirade, which he refused to release as too obscene for publication in the U. S. press, promptly replied that he had instructed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd to make "emphatic comment" to the German Government on its semi-official abuse. Milder than a "protest," diplomatic "comment" requires no reply by the offending Government...
...would lease to responsible televisors with no more attempt to discriminate or dictate than if it were a telephone service. They were willing to file complete reports of costs and work done but not of unprotected technical secrets. Heeding these representations, the Commission last fortnight issued a new and milder ruling which the company was happy to accept. Last week it was announced that production would be started on the cable at once, that installation would be completed in six months...