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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...
...assistant in the Will H. Hays office and No. 1 cinema censor. His job has been to supervise the reading of scripts, watch for dirty spots, attempt to eliminate them during conferences with producers. But a producers' jury has existed which as a lenient court of appeals could undo Mr. Breen's best work...
Thus eight years after that June day when Dr. Endicott Peabody married Anna Roosevelt to Curtis Dall in the vine-covered Episcopal church at Hyde Park, the President's favorite child set out to undo the marriage. Newshawks quickly noted the shrewd timing of her action: Her divorce, if she gets one, will be granted late next month while her father is away on his trip to Hawaii. Whether, like her brother Elliott, she will remarry shortly thereafter no one yet knew for sure...
That feeling was responsible for Mr. Astor's taking a place on the finance committee for the Roosevelt campaign. His cash contributions to the cause of a man who was suspected of wanting to undo all rich men exceeded $25,000. Soon after the election of his friend he started talking with Raymond Moley about founding a magazine to propound the Roosevelt philosophy, which appealed to the liberal side of his own nature. The same feeling was responsible nearly a year later, when Professor Moley had talked himself out of the Brain Trust, for the founding of Today...
...necessary to describe the disconcerting effects which this questionnaire will have upon those who receive it, for these can only too easily be imagined. Although it is impossible to undo the damage which these lurid broadsheets have already produced, it is strongly to be hoped that authority will make regulations which prevent literature of this type from ever being distributed again. Whitney N. Morgan...