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...After an informal dinner for 70, at which Senator Russell of Georgia and Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico (also a Georgian) were guests, the President and his guests sat down to one of the movie shows which constitute frequent White House entertainment. It began with a newsreel. Suddenly a tousled man flashed on the screen. "The trouble with the people in Washington is that they have had common sense educated out of them," he cried. Senator Russell and Governor Winship began to laugh. Franklin Roosevelt let out a hearty roar: that Georgia's recalcitrant Governor Talmadge should tear...
...smack much more of Washington Square than Williamstown. With its lavish Colonial fraternity houses, its large quota of good cars, and its time-honored indifference, which runs even that of Harvard a close race, Williams can hardly be called a hotbed of radicalism. If the crusade against the Hearst newsreel was successful it is because an increasingly large number of American undergraduates are becoming disgusted with the philosophy of San Simeon. At Williams, as at other universities, they make their wishes felt in the face of a good-naturedly indifferent majority...
...Fair promoter, three days after their birth, to ship them to Chicago as a sideshow. Last week the nursery, under the administration of Dr. Dafoe and a board of guardians appointed by Ontario's Attorney General, had piled up nearly $30,000 profit, a large part from newsreel contracts. The Parent Dionnes and their other five children, in the old farmhouse 100 yards away, were living far better than in the days before Mother Dionne labored five times in three-quarters of an hour. Into this idyll crashed "Mitch" Hepburn...
...newsreel pictures of himself on the wing. Flyer Sohn is asking...
Last week with all the publicity that a U. S. President and two of his Cabinet can drum up, the Treasury launched its drive to distribute government bonds among private investors. In the Oval Room of the White House before floodlights and newsreel cameras Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Postmaster General Farley put on a little act which in thousands of cinemansions throughout the land shows President Roosevelt buying the first "baby bonds." They were the "salesmen"; the President the "prospect...