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Died. Guglielmo Ferrero, 71, famed Italian historian (The Grandeur & Decadence of Rome, The Reconstruction of Europe), veteran antiFascist; in Geneva, Switzerland. Admired by Teddy Roosevelt (for his pointed parallels between the politics of Caesar and Tammany), Ferrero launched his world reputation with a U.S. lecture tour in 1908. Under Mussolini...
This made the fourth successive day on which Franklin Roosevelt, pushing aside the problems of war, had received New York politicos, had engaged in long political discussions. Earlier callers had been Senator Robert F. Wagner; Representative Michael J. Kennedy, the pushing new leader of Tammany, and gum-champing, pewter-haired...
Then came the White House blow-off Jim Farley had prepared against. Senator Wagner, on leaving the Executive Mansion, announced that the President would back any "liberal" candidate. Next day Tammany Leader Kennedy amended the definition: Franklin Roosevelt would back any liberal who had backed the Roosevelt foreign policy 100...
New York's schools suffer not only from bigness but from 18 years of Tammany mismanagement. During the reign of Dr. George J. Ryan, longtime (1922-36) president of the Board of Education, there were complaints that school officials wasted millions on school sites, buildings, furniture, by overpayments to...
When the animals are talking their own language and roaming their improvised jungle near Los Angeles, Jungle Book is as absorbing as a behind-the-scenes trip to the zoo. But when they converse in Kipling's English, the result is painful. The python sounds like Lionel Barrymore; the...