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...billions, then hit a peak of $4,700.000,000 in fiscal 1936 (year of the Soldiers' Bonus), dropped to $2,707,000,000 in fiscal 1937. Relatively small though the new figure for fiscal 1938 appears, it will be the eighth consecutive deficit-with government revenues only a shade short of the alltime high ($6,695,000,000 in booming 1920 when Wartime taxes were still in effect...
...adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema producers were reported in friendly negotiations with Author Fowler, who is holding...
...left, as one enters Robinson, is a group of drawings which may be classified under the second type, namely, emotional reactions of the artist set down on paper. Mr. Lougee argues that, if certain kinds of abstract music can arouse a person emotionally, then abstract renditions of light and shade can achieve the same effect. He says frankly that these are but visual experiments, yet, his reactions to Handel's music, for one, set on paper as the essence of great, soaring flames beneath Gothic arches, succeed in conveying some kind of emotional stimulus to the onlooker...
...Newton D. Baker. His experiences in Washington and abroad (where he joined the A. E. F. as captain in the U. S. A. Military Intelligence and attended the Versailles Conference as aid to the U. S. commissioners) left him with the feeling that the New Republic was a shade too theoretical. When he returned to the U. S. he soon left the New Republic for the late great New York World, as assistant and heir to the late and even greater Editor Frank I. Cobb. whose editorials provided for years the most trenchant criticism of what would now be called...
...school. There were plenty of hot words on both sides. Potent pleader foi the A. F. of L. was Henry Ohl Jr., chunky, prey president of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor for two decades. Able, hardworking, a Socialist for 40 years until the Socialists got too deep a shade of red for him, President Ohl has led his State organization into profitable alliances with farmer-labor groups and La Follette progressives. Last week he snorted: "One cannot ride two horses simultaneously, unless, of course, he is a trick rider- and teachers are not trick riders...