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...Probably. And TIME suspects that Confucius cribbed the crack from an earlier pundit...
...posed for him last month by a Nazi Bund rally on Washington's Birthday in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. That rally loudly cheered Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally was perfectly legal, and Bund-sters' freedom of speech was protected by police. All this moved Liberal Caswell to write: "It could well be that a rather severe limitation of liberty and even...
...once in sonorous harmony, the majority leader and presiding pundit of the U. S. Senate, Alben Barkley and John Nance Garner, last week continued to shush debate on U. S. foreign policy. When they began doing it two weeks ago G. O. P. Leader McNary winked, congratulated "Dear Alben" upon his adroitly prolonged adjournments, tipped off the fact that Republicans were no more anxious than Garner Democrats to step out against International Defense...
...Camps. If almost nobody in the U. S. wants war, almost nobody in the U. S. as of February 1939 wants to be unprepared for it. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann last week: "There is no responsible party which thinks the United States can afford to be weak in a world where all other nations are armed to the teeth...
...there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were not impressed by Pundit Boulanger's claims that Composer Frangaix was "a genius," but they found his concerto an agreeable, earsome knickknack...