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Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...
...water-closet scandal was just one splash in a whirlpool of trouble which recently engulfed husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes, who eight years ago became the biggest political frog in Waterbury. Mayor of Waterbury, he also became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and, though honest old Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, onetime dean of Yale's Graduate School, was too spry ever to let him get his hand on the highest State controls, he presided over the Senate in a style which, his accusers said, was lucrative as well as lordly...
...blended and interwoven in the "Church at Jacona" give a weird effect, especially as the solid form of the structure is almost lost in a hazy smothering of paint. Again in "Jacona Houses" the mood is melancholy, sombre, and weird, intensified by dark tones of paint, except for a splash of bluish white breaking out of the gloom on the right side of the picture...
...three years, U. S. industry is spending a mere $4,500,000 a year for it. (Estimated expenditure for engineering research: $300,000,000.) Only a handful of the biggest U. S. companies indulge in market research to an appreciable extent* and of these General Motors makes the biggest splash, spending something less than $500,000 a year for the purpose...
...House Office Building railroad presidents laid bare the shambles of railroad economics, railroad labor representatives snarled that labor was not to blame, should not pay the penalty. Meanwhile, the rival groups issued reams of charts, figures and opinions. Apex of the managements' campaign was a nationwide splash of advertising. Apex for labor was a 482-page, clothbound book (each copy stamped with the recipient's name in gold letters) dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt and titled Main Street-Not Wall Street. Last week "Main Street...