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...faced his first issue with Congress over Relief. In asking for a Relief appropriation far larger than expected ($875,000,000 instead of some $600,000,000), he took pains to remind the Congress that this sum was only to keep WPA going as is until June 30. Let Congress appropriate that, he urged, and apply any alterations it may want to make in Relief procedure, to fiscal 1940. Said he: "The hasty adoption of legislative provisions, to be immediately effective, which radically change the present method . . . would greatly complicate the administration of the program in the coming months...
...York World's Fair of 1939, were planned over a year ago, before Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. people became ultra-conscious of Europe and South America. Now the fleet's move has another significance: to bolster the President's "continental solidarity," and remind Europe's fascists that the U. S. is still a major power in the Atlantic...
...these, in The Lady Vanishes, is added a story which will remind admirers of Alex ander Woollcott of his famed anecdote about the young lady who, visiting Paris with her mother, was sadly disconcerted one day to find that the old lady had Disappeared and that nobody would admit that she had ever existed. For the mother, The Lady Vanishes substitutes a dowdy English governess (Dame May Whitty); for Paris, it substitutes an express train on which young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is going back to England; and for bubonic plague, which was the reason in the Woollcott story...
...Spain the Prime Minister said: "When I was at Munich I spoke on the subject of the future of Spain with both Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Both of them assured me most definitely that they had no territorial ambitions whatever in Spain, and I would remind you that when we were apparently faced with the prospect of a new major war, General Franco made a declaration of neutrality and said he would not violate the French frontier unless he were attacked from that quarter...
...this year, the Collector of Internal Revenue had to remind Taxpayer Roosevelt about $1,089.56 in stock dividends omitted from his return...