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...Coast Guard, General Craig as Army Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins as Relief Administrator and CCC Director Fechner assembled with the President to set the wheels of succor turning day & night for 400,000 flood victims. And the flood was merely one more unexpected item in the torrent of events which proceeded to baptize the new term. One day John L. Lewis boldly demanded that the President help the C. I. 0. lick General Motors and was turned down (see p. 11). On another arrived Dr. Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, onetime Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen and distinguished guests took an icy showerbath in full regalia. In the inaugural pavilion covered by a roof beneath which the gusty torrent swept, attendants dumped the puddles from chairs as the Cabinet and seven Justices of the Supreme Court (including all its aged conservative members) marched down the official red carpet, which oozed water like a sponge, to take their seats. Mrs. Roosevelt rushed about oblivious to the deluge finding blankets for relatives...
...years ago a high-calibre Colombian general named Virgilio Barco journeyed to Manhattan to sell an oil concession he held on 1,200,000 acres of his native jungle, dropped into the Standard Oil Building. Legend is that he got no farther than the gate: suspicious of his torrent of Spanish, the bomb-conscious guards summarily ejected him through the door. Thereafter the proud Colombian refused to have any dealing with Standard Oil of New Jersey. His concession was snapped up by Promoter Carl Kendriok MacFadden for his Carib Syndicate, Ltd., which kept a minority interest, sold the rest...
Your correspondent said "the rain had indeed stopped," but that later "a fresh torrent of rain descended on the Yard...
...remainder of the program is taken up with Debussy's three symphonic sketches, "La Mer," and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The former is delightful musical description of a light, joyous variety (there is no great storm or torrent as in many other program pieces with similar names). The latter is often considered the greatest of Beethoven's nine symphonies; but let the music speak for itself--it is far more eloquent than mere words...