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...Most people are so affected by their first sight of the glow and glitter of myriads of artificial stars projected on the invisible vault of a darkened planetarium. Thus when a planetarium is opened in a U. S. city, wise news editors keep their elderly pooh-poohers in the shop and send their most impressionable young lyricists to cover the story. Thus, too, the four U. S. planetaria were made possible by gifts not from practicing esthetes but from a merchant, a soapmaker, a West Coast landowner, a socialite banker...
...other side of the continent, Presidential Secretary Steve Early was handing out to the Press at Hyde Park the same letter, together with one Mr. Howard had previously written his good Friend Franklin Roosevelt. When this exchange of correspondence was headlined up & down the land, Democratic politicians beamed. Republicans pooh-poohed, businessmen made weighty statements and the stockmarket zoomed...
Since FERA has consistently refused to discriminate against private strikers, New York's relief strikers pooh-poohed General Johnson's talk, expected to live on home relief. But in Washington, WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins surprised them by promising that whatever home relief they got would be from states or cities because the Federal Government would not contribute a cent to their support. Snapped he: "There is no such thing as a strike on a relief...
...which is transmitted from State to State. Burkan's persistent retort has been that music is "intangible and incorporeal." Lawyer Thomas Day Thacher. U. S. Solicitor General under Herbert Hoover, entered the trial to argue that ASCAP existed only to protect the rights of composers and lyric writers, pooh-poohed the idea that the organization was potent enough to dominate an industry which includes such interests as American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Electric, Westinghouse, Radio Corporation of America...
Sophisticated observers regarded the venture as a freakish experiment, pooh-poohed the idea that a troupe could succeed without women to decorate it. But in less than two years Ted Shawn has made a success. With no capital, he took to the road when times were darkest. In 1933-34 he and his dancers visited 115 cities. This season's record was 125, with sufficient profit for the dancers to go this week to London where they have hired His Majesty's Theatre...