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...State where Democrats and Republicans were winding up their hottest primary campaigns in years. Having tasted blood in 1932, the Democrats were out to mass a thumping vote and carry the state for the first time in half a century. Badly demoralized by local defeats, the Republicans sensed their peril. Pennsylvania's voters prepared to go to the polls this week and select their party candidates for the November elections. For Governor- The regular Democratic State Committee backed George Hansell Earle 3rd's gubernatorial candidacy. Candidate Earle, 43, is vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co. For 20 years...
...rape story is revived, feeling on the waterfront runs high. Lonnie is again arrested, escapes just before he is lynched. His flight fills four scenes with excitement. As Lonnie's peril increases and the play becomes more intense, its shabby cloak of propaganda happily falls away. Stevedore turns into a glorious melodrama in the grand manner of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo...
...present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There are in the U. S. 11,500,000 Negroes of extraordinary fecundity. . . . The yellow peril is nothing. We will encounter an Africanized America, in which the white race will end by being suffocated by the fertile grandsons of Uncle Tom. Are we to see within a century a Negro in the White House...
...great composer, had designed. . . . If each of you today will send a tribute, small or great. . . ." Toscanini's birthday presents amounted to some $50,000, made over $400,000 that the Philharmonic has collected since Harry Harkness Flagler, president of the Society, announced that the Orchestra was in peril of its life (TIME, Feb. 5). The S O S (Save Our Symphony) Campaign was launched in Mr. Flagler's Park Avenue home. There he informed 70 likely givers that $500,000 would have to be raised to assure the Orchestra's existence for the next three seasons...
...blame a man who, fearing for the future of his country, tries to spread the news of her grave peril. But it becomes a little wearying to find the eminent journalist, Mark Sullivan, spawning article after article with but one theme: that the Administration has two wings of opinion, one right, one left; that the Right has a monopoly over the good, the true, the beautiful but is lax in asserting its eminence; and that the Left is composed of young radical professors who combine fluttery, unsound minds with amazing, sinister shrewdness in hypnotizing the President. It appears that...