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...that I consider it a dear old friend and don't accuse it of being smart-aleck. There is an intelligent lady here who cancelled her subscription to TIME because of certain statements in it quite some time ago in reference to the Jews which she construed to savor of antiSemitism. The trouble is that she, as well as others who accuse TIME of other things, is still a stranger to this weekly. When I first became a subscriber I, too, thought TIME to be smart-aleck and guilty of other faults. But it's six years that...
...particularly Masonic ones; and they do not care for the indiscriminate fellowship of the United Lutheran Church with non-Lutheran groups. Politely Dr. Knubel replied that the only test his Church would apply to a merger is "the test of the ages-the salt that did not lose its savor...
Recent utterances of the President Indicate an obviously defensive attitude for which there can be no political reason as the Democratic flood continues unabated. Power is a headler potion than alcohol and morning after headaches more certain and severe. To the philosophic observer his recent remarks savor of disillusion as one who reluctantly must lay aside cherished dreams to achieve bread and butter. Perhaps it is realized that the Brain Trusters' panaceas may precipitate an industrial crash that will beggar the recent banking collapse unless the New Dealers secure the cooperation and help of practical business men. Platitudes and generalities...
Such differences of theory rather than personal differences were what stood between Mr. Richberg and General Johnson last week. To the testy General his general counsel's advocacy of changes in Johnson's own NRA could not help but savor of disloyalty. Mr. Richberg's loyalty to his own ideals put him in a delicate position regarding his old friend. But neither wished to quarrel with the other. Which one eventually gets the upper hand will be decided by President Roosevelt, but there is little doubt which way he leans. He does not want to break with the General, especially...
...before his death) brings to a close one of the liveliest diaries ever written. Arnold Bennett, like the great Sam Johnson, was that rare and peculiarly English product, the apotheosis of brilliant common sense. Unlike Sam Johnson, Bennett was naturally energetic, ambitious, insatiably curious, versatile. Life had an appetizing savor to him; he lived it and wrote about it with zest. Coincident with this third volume of the Journal the Viking Press publishes a one-volume edition ($5), which the Literary Guild has made its June selection...