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Harry Hopkins, the social uplift zealot, remains today No. 1 Janizary but his position as head of WPA ties him down a bit. Jim Farley, converted last fortnight to the Purge-wherever it has a chance of working-remains Janizary No. 2 ex-officio, but his duties as Democratic National Chairman are gentle and routine, such as running to New England last week to beg Maine to "get in step." Solicitor General Jackson, now busy getting ready for the Monopoly Investigation, for a time was Janizary No. 3, but none of these can match in energy, facility or ubiquitousness...
...contrasted the desires of Mexicans with the claims of U. S. citizens : "On the one hand, are weighed the conquests of justice and the uplift of an entire people, and on the other hand the purely pecuniary interests of certain individuals." This, said Señor Hay with masterly blandness, justified Mexico's "apparent failure" to pay for what she took...
White Banners (Warner Bros.) continues the campaign of moral uplift which its author, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, started in Magnificent Obsession and Green Light. Central character of Green Light was a bubbly jocular minister who, when the minor characters in the story became upset, explained to them that humanity was a kind of automotive parade best governed by the traffic signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher...
...educational hullabaloo about intellectual and social guidance is meaningless to the average Freshman. And unless reformers look at every dimension of the real figure, their efforts are mere words. In trying to uplift the personal element in education to its rightful place beside the academic, they have tended to forget the major point that ultimately the result of college training depends upon the undergraduate. It is he who must make himself well-balanced, he who must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily...
...Craven calls upon a little squirrel of a professor to give the geological history and other recondite data of the town, and also upon a prominent citizen to sketch in the general tenor of the place and to answer the questions of a Communist, a cultural uplift lady, and a W. C. T. U. worker, all scattered through the audience. The second act deals with love and marriage, and the third with death...