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...booed in Detroit, Philadelphia and Salt Lake City. Hostile signs were flaunted before him. Declared an oldtime White House secret service man: "I've been traveling with Presidents since Roosevelt and never before have I seen one actually booed, with men running out into the street to thumb their noses at him. It's not a pretty sight...
...Roosevelt. A "gold brick standard'' was what the Republican Administration was on, in the words of Col. Henry Breckinridge in Richmond. Va. Up & down the Pacific Coast trooped Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, Republican insurgent, telling its electorate that President Hoover was under the thumb of the ''Power Trust." California's Republican Senator Hiram Johnson broadcast from Chicago: "The crisis demands a change! When a miracle man fails and a mystery man explodes, instinctively we turn to one who knows and understands and feels with us. Such a man is Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...changed her dress again. She has apparently changed her mind about just what sort of a girl she wants to be this season. No longer the demure young lady (with her moments of audacity to be sure), she will cut and curl her hair, wear a tailored suit, and thumb the pages of The World Tomorrow. And she has betrayed her womanhood most completely by a delightful bit of guile--by dating it November instead of September she has brought out her first issue on time...
...table. . . . "I'm not ready to admit that religion, though it may have moved down a bit, has moved out. Far from it. Meanwhile, you might take a look at the world on your own account. Get the file of last week's newspapers and thumb your way through them as I have done. . . ." Thus introduced, Stanley High's first broadcast went along to deal chiefly with the religious background of the proposed India Legislature (TIME, Aug. 29), and Adolf Hitler's antiSemitism. Stanley High discovers many a religious angle to non-religious news items...
...March 1929 tall, jolly Pianist-Conductor Ernest Schelling was rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts...