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...offices used to administer only poor law relief. They were appointed local Dole dispute referees when it was "tightened up" as one of the first acts of the National Government (TIME, Sept. 21). Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, whose main election appeal was to women, arranged that the new Dole screw should not turn against them until last week...
...Representative Arthur Monroe Free of California (Stanford 1901) was hurriedly summoned to fill in. Softly the Marine Band played "A Bicycle Built for Two." There was quiet, reminiscent talk but no songs, no cheers, no collegiate informality. Despite their friendship for the President, no member of the team could screw his courage up to calling him "Bert." Coffee and cigars were followed by a lantern slide show of undergraduate days. When the reunion broke up before midnight. President Hoover said to his guests: "Come back tomorrow morning for medicine ball." Some of them did, and the next night, without...
Labor's Gompers remained at heart a piecework cigar maker to the end. As industry grew more specialized, Gompers merely grew older, stodgier. He refused to see that it does not take years of apprenticeship to teach a man to screw two nuts on a Ford chassis as it passes him in straight-line production. So the A. F. of L.'s membership continues to be a diehard association of specialist craftsmen, for which industry has less & less use. On his death bed Gompers petulantly directed his membership to support the Presidential candidacy of the late Robert Marion...
...echoes of James's hesitant subtlety have been rare in the novels of his successors. R. E. Spencer shows in his first book, The Lady Who Came to Stay, that he is a James-admiring writer. With an obvious debt to James's psychological thriller, The Turn of the Screw, obvious salutes to the Master in the turnings of every tortured sentence, The Lady Who Came to Stay is a distinguished novel in its own right...
...strongly suspect Secretary Stimson of borrowing his "bathtub" analogy- from Secretary Mellon's experience with the bathtubs of the old Bull Hotel in Cambridge, England. I recently stayed there and largely failed to solve the intricacies of the 18-inch brass and rubber stoppers with the thumb screw attachment in the same three tubs which Mr. Mellon used, and of which the Dull Hotel is justly proud (TIME, Aug. 3). There seems to be no way to manipulate to prevent a slow but steady drain. But the Hull Hotel is one of the best and most comfortable hotels...