Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt last week came reports from Grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt that Grandson No. 5, John Roosevelt Boettiger, is "the most friendly, happy baby I have seen in a long while." Grandmother marveled at John's strength, made with him the most widely printed U. S. picture of the week...
Until recent years the beaver was seen only in woodsy ponds, traps, men's hats, women's sport coats, alphabet books. Three years ago he appeared in the Government's Interior Department, which employed him to dam streams, in projects ranging from erosion control to better housing for trout. For this job he received no wage at all; he did it just because he loved the work...
...Pact, were determinedly working to overthrow Naziism and betting on war as their best chance. Whether they had quit, or whether they had been turned in by their Moscow bosses, was not apparent. No large numbers of Communists were reported by correspondents to have been seen leaving concentration camps. Still comparatively safe was the active Social Democratic underground campaign, which prudently stopped cooperating with the Communists soon after Hitler came to power...
...Conant seems to believe that this reduction was made necessary by budgetary exigencies. But any such claim carries no weight at all when it is seen that, by salary readjustments in the permanent ranks--or merely by advancing these men to permanent positions with the same salaries which they held before--as many of the ten as were urgently needed could have been made associate professors and retained permanently...
Though the picture ends with President Roosevelt pleading for peace, peace was the last thing The Fight for Peace encouraged. Audiences tough enough to stick it out until the last bomb-burst were as dazed as some survivors of the air raids they had just seen, or as fighting mad as others. For The Fight for Peace shared this much with great art-though it was unable to tell its audience what to do for peace, it let them see with their own eyes what Poet T. S. Eliot meant when he wrote: "I will show you fear...