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Economy. Another word of caution did the President speak lest Congress, emboldened by his big spending plans, end all economy measures. He asked that such Depression economies as still survive be continued. Comparatively trivial, they include reduced fees for jurors and witnesses in Federal courts, reduced travel allowances for postal employes, no re-enlistment bonuses for Army and Navy, enforced retirement of government employes after 30 years' service, as well as $6,000 less a year for Vice President Garner's official automobile. Nor did he want the 5% pay cut to which Federal employes are still subject...
...Marshall innovations were trivial. He persuaded fashionable young matrons of the capital to work for the Times. Betsy Caswell, widow of the Shenandoah's Commander Lansdowne, did the cooking page; beauteous Mrs. Grace Hendrick Eustis reported politics; plump Nina Carter Tabb covered the hunts of the swank Middleburg and Warrentown set. Hugely successful, their columns helped budge the Times' circulation up to 106,800, only 6,300 less than the venerable Washington Star...
...poet Mr. Lehmann resembles the 17th century metaphysical; any how, he is under their influence, so potent also in the case of Mr. T. S. Eliot or Mr. Archibald MacLeish. Mr. Lehmann does not 'surprise' the reader by quick transitions from the grave to the trivial; he builds a poem often, in the manner of (say) Carew, on a single metaphor, of which the following is the best example...
...lazy scholars out of the pre-vacation slump, but in subjecting everyone to such an ordeal in order to stimulate a sluggish minority is patently unfair. The contention of others that they benefit by a review of their studies is true to a certain extent, but a quizzing of trivial details contributes little to one's education, while those broader essay subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those relics of juvenile schooling ought long...
Vast in importance to the New Deal is the character of the new Congress elected three weeks ago. But trivial is the importance of that Congress compared to the current political importance of the U. S. Supreme Court. For what Congress can do, the Supreme Court can undo. New Dealers last week looked forward with less interest to the doings of Congress than to the answers the Supreme Court will give to a variety of critical questions at its current term...