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When Dean Hanford reported that "the next ten years promises to become a decade of natural sciences," he hit upon a problem which has been closely connected with the pocketbooks of students ever since the battery in the magic wand of "liberal education" went dead, some dozen years...
With this airy-fairy wave of the wand, Franklin Roosevelt ended his management-labor conference. He had to do something magical to make it disappear. The conferees had locked horns so dashingly over one basic point that the sound of their snorts and tramplings was beginning to be embarrassing. What the President had widely advertised as a peace conference was about to turn into a battle royal...
...talent" was the best Hollywood has (James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Brennan, et al.) and the best radio voice in Washington (Franklin D. Roosevelt). Its writing, timing and direction (by Norman Corwin) were expert. It was produced under the wand of the Office of Facts & Figures, headed by Archibald MacLeish. Government, networks and artists collaborated...
...still far from the scrap heap. Mechanics were already at work stripping out some old parts (such as the board's fact-finding function), putting in some new ones. Predictions were that the board would be recreated by statute (not, as originally, by a Presidential wave of the wand), that it would be backed up by another tribunal which would step in, if mediation failed, to arbitrate...
...opening campaign speech little Fiorello tossed away his prepared manuscript, grabbed off his horn-rimmed glasses and used them alternately as a cutlass, a rapier, a backscratcher, a wand, a scepter, a drumstick and a trowel. He touched his toes, imitated a football player's kickoff, spat on an imaginary apple and polished it on his sleeve. He told the audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge...