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...person, was long-faced Harry Lloyd Hopkins, working in shirt-sleeves at his plebeian office on the top (ninth) floor of an old yellow-brick structure which houses the Works Progress Administration. Because more than 8,000,000 U. S. persons look to WPA for their toil-won bread, and because $1,425,000,000 is a lot of Government money to have to spend in an election year, Harry Hopkins has inevitably become regarded as a prime mover-and prime target-on the national political scene. To himself, however, he remains first & foremost the dutiful boss...
Coach Fred Mitchell will have big Ed Ingalls on the Crimson mound in an attempt to avenge the earlier 3-0 setback by the Big Red at Ithaca, while Mike Steunack will toil for the invaders. Both teams have won four and dropped...
...artist is at his best when he is depicting the stern, hard, grim type of miner who lives in Jerome. With just a few quick lines he brings out all the toil and suffering endured by these men, men who, however, still enjoy life. Another point in which the artist excels is the remarkable effects he achieves by the use of just a few colors. An excellent example of this may be seen in "Arizona Hills...
...call upon all editors ... to recognize a growing criticism, to face it fairly, to set their houses in order, to be governed by good taste, by a sense of justice, by complete devotion to the public interest, and to toil unceasingly to educate our readers to such a sense of the value of a free press in America that the citizens of this republic shall become the willing cooperators, the fellow warriors with us, in a never-ceasing fight for the maintenance of democratic institutions...
...office in the United Mine Workers' new, half -million -dollar headquarters, John Lewis thinks expansive thoughts and formulates them into the resounding sentences so suited to the undulating rumble of his voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad. He is concerned with "the future of endangered...