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Noting that "round-shouldered Raymond Clapper reported that the Midwest had only the 'mildest interest' in the Presidential race" (TIME, Jan. 29), General Hugh S. Johnson was ready for an argument last week. "Well," snorted he, "paunchy, red-faced Columnist Johnson doesn't agree with round-shouldered...
...country climbed out of the Depression. Last week the atmosphere was very different: a citizenry shagging to the tune of Oh Johnny! refused to take the 1940 Campaign seriously until it knew where Franklin Roosevelt stood. Round-shouldered Columnist Raymond Clapper reported that the Midwest had only the "mildest interest" in the Presidential race. Whirling Washington agreed generally that, while Franklin Roosevelt is evidently preparing to retire, he is a light sleeper and is leaving his bedroom door open...
...milk-mildest exhibits in the New York World's Fair is the $250,000, garden-cloistered Temple of Religion. Carefully not consecrated by any churchman, studiously avoiding any favoritism among faiths, the Temple has scheduled only sacred concerts, non-controversial discourses on "Religious Freedom" and "God's Place in Man's Life," by priests, rabbis and ministers, in rotation...
...London's Whitehall, day before Armistice Day, no unseemly shrieks (see p. 25) disturbed the ceremony as curtains parted to reveal the late handsome Field Marshal George Alexander Eugene Douglas, Earl Haig in conservative bronze. Conservative was the mildest word many British artists had for this third effort of Sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman, A. R. A., who has been badgered for eight years about his designs. His version of the field marshal's cavalry horse was once described by Lady Haig as "monstrous." She also considered it unnatural that the field marshal's head should be hatless...
Even the President's message to the special session was indicative of the new attitude of the Administration. Characterized by a Washington correspondent as "the mildest message of his career," the document breathed a conciliatory spirit, and went to the unprecedented length of proposing tax revision,--albeit somewhat vaguely,--and again mentioned budget-balancing. Only once did the President stoop to demagoguery, when in referring to his old whipping post, the Supreme Court, he expressed the hope that the Court will not "again deny to farmers the protection which it now accords to others...