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With his own utility system Willkie set out to do a number of things that the New Deal advocated. To widen the use of electricity one of his first acts was to hire 500 salesmen to sell electrical devices. C. & S. began to extend its lines into rural areas; as electric consumption increased, it began to lower its rates, inviting more consumption. When Willkie took over in 1933, Commonwealth & Southern's average domestic rate per kilowatt hour was 6?. Today...
...days passed and then the Washington Times-Herald headlined: "NEUTRALITY NOTE SPLITS F. D., HULL." This was over a United Press story to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to blast at the Senate, that Mr. Hull was restraining him lest he irreparably widen the gulf between him and his Senate opponents, and further antagonize the Rome-Berlin Axis...
...politician, puckish Sir Thomas would undoubtedly alarm his more sober countrymen. Typical Beecham attitude: "It is safe to prophesy that the ideological lunatics who abound in every country will, both in the press and out of it, continue their unhappy endeavors to widen the breach between one country and another. I look forward, therefore, to a highly ironical and diverting climax to the current epoch of political myopia...
...Franklin Roosevelt has been engaged in an oratorical struggle with Adolf Hitler. In his last two sallies, he tried Woodrow Wilson's tactics of talking past Germany's leader to its people. Orator Hitler in his reply last week (see p. 18) did the same, seeking to widen the split in U. S. public opinion behind the U. S. President, to bolster isolationist sentiment in the U. S. by twitting Mr. Roosevelt unmercifully for Woodrow Wilson's failure at world intervention...
...into the whacky farce world of a You Can't Take It With You. The last act wobbles all over the place. This is not miscalculation on Odets' part. It springs from a pretentious-side of him that wants to make every common dentist's office widen out into the universe. Sometimes he mistakes abracadabra for revelation...