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...critics into recognizing the richness, delicacy and care of his painting. As untidy in his life as he is tidy in his painting, stocky, mocking, hard-working Artist Grosser last week fidgeted, tore up match boxes, explained his preference of subject matter with classic concision: "Humans wiggle; vegetables just rot...
Last week Pravda claimed that wayward peasants had increased their personal plots until they had no time left for collective farming, were letting hay rot in the collective meadows. Others were renting their plots, breaking the first Communist commandment by turning landlords. More serious was Pravda's admission that peasants were deserfing many farms. Furious at the never-ending tug-of-war, the Kremlin thundered a rigid new decree restricting all peasant garden plots, setting drastic penalties for collective farm managers who leased land illegally...
...straight relief as opposed to work relief: "I tell my visitor that never so long as I am President of the United States will I condemn millions of men and women to the dry rot of idleness on a dole. . . . I do not have to be told that 5% of the projects are of questionable value. . . . I am proud of the fact that 95% of the projects are good...
...financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...
...Ralph Clampit lead a vain effort from the floor to push the bill through to the Senate. He was supported by Representative John Vaughan of Belmont who cried that the law is a "wedge in our Constitution into which the moisture will creep, and in no time mildew will rot out our rights and the foundations of our government...