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...Roosevelt had become more than a phenomenon: by last week she was a portent. With U. S. industry beginning to hit its stride in the production of everything, with thousands of men going back to work, and consumption zooming, Mrs. Roosevelt warned housewives to start thinking about doing without new automobiles, aluminum kitchen utensils, etc., warned housewives' husbands to change those items on the family budget into Government securities. For once, Washington and Wall Street winced as one. The Wall Street Journal voiced a shadowy but growing fear: "Mrs. Roosevelt is increasingly active; watch her for tips on policies...
...Born of a famed conductor father (Leopold Damrosch) in Breslau, Germany, Walter Damrosch took his own opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap door rattled and banged through Debussy's placid Afternoon of a Faun (as it did one night in Utica, N. Y.), or when he found himself conducting on the strippers' runway in some cramped burlesque house. He was not above giving the Path...
Burditt thinks that the team's success is due to teamwork. "We sort of hit our stride," he stated, "after the Tufts Junior Varsity tussle. We realized that we would have to fight in order...
Coach Fesler expects his men will hit their stride tonight for the first time since the disastrous mid-year examination layoff. If they do, they will have a good chance to upset the cocky visitors...
...Increased production of domestic pictures, especially in Argentina (which made only 20 pictures in 1936, is now making around 60 features a year) and Mexico, where the native film industry is just hitting its stride...