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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That afternoon Their Majesties went to the Plains of Abraham, there heard 50,000 school children sing O Canada and God Save the King in French. That night there was a speechless dinner at the Château, at which the King dawdled over snowbird breasts on toast and trout, while the Queen, who is apparently dieting, ate almost nothing, fussed with her gloves until at dinner's end the King...
...fifth anti-fascist fiasco. Like the others it falls short in imagination and scope. Unlike the others, it manages-simply as a florid, stagy melodrama-to keep moving. The story of a noble Austrian family who get in dutch after Anschluss, it tells of a beautiful princess who, to save her brother's life, agrees to marry a brutal Nazi Commissioner, of a sly old grandfather who has the winning card up his sleeve. In the end the harassed nobles get safely across the frontier-into Ruritania...
...department that is groping in the past. But while the department has stood still, the world has moved forward to new techniques, new forms, new social forces. The recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery when the one man that can save the department from its past must leave...
...least one white rabbit a year out of his fine high hat was produced by Franklin Roosevelt in the first five years of his Administration, to solve and save the U. S. economy. For his sixth year, with some 11,000,000 workers still jobless, the Budget still reeling, the President appeared to have lost his urge for new projects. Nonetheless, his advisers persuaded him to try at least a grey rabbit: revision of corporate taxes deterrent to Business. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins heralded it, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau nursed it after Undersecretary John Hanes bred and produced...
Reorganization II Like a man with a new rifle who waits only for ammunition to shoot it, Franklin Roosevelt last week again raised the Government reorganizing power granted him by Congress last March and let fly. His second volley affected only 12,000 U. S. employes, promised to save only $1,250,000, but in the pants of inefficiency it looked like a telling fusillade...