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Under two of Franklin Roosevelt's pet agencies-the Budget Bureau and National Resources Planning Board-Congress lit a slow fire. A Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, headed by Millard E. Tydings of Maryland, reported that the agencies were rife with "ideologies and theories looking forward to greater Governmental expenditures and greater deficits during the post-war period." Said the subcommittee: "Such controversial matters (better termed 'propaganda') should not be sponsored at public expense...
Beginning next week, the CRIMSON will carry a series of articles analyzing rumors and propaganda which have been rife around the University during the past few weeks. The articles will be written by Robert H. Knapp 2G., teaching fellow in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Division of Propaganda Research of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety...
...notion of employing airships as plane carriers is not regarded in Washington as moonshine. The rumor is rife that the Nazis intend to load up the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-70 with planes, ship them west for token bombing raids on the U.S. It would be a dangerous trip for them in more ways than one. The Nazis have no helium, would have to inflate their dirigibles with inflammable hydrogen. The U.S. still has the only helium available-thanks largely to tough little Harold Ickes, who killed a proposed sale to the Germans back...
...which permitted in its ranks the racketeering, profiteering, and petty tyranny which plague organized labor under the present setup would be more of a drawback than a help to the nation. Although labor is on the road to democracy, it is at that stage in the road which is rife with crookedness and graft, phenomena which appear in union life as thugs and "goons," irresponsibility and dictatorship...
...Rife is the rumour in well-informed Lowell House circles that the House Committee and the tutors are considering adopting Will Hay's now-famous sweater prohibitions for young lady guests in the Bellboy Louis Quinze dining room...