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...cause for mild astonishment. It had long seemed inevitable that the Wagner Act would be replaced by a more conservative measure. Labor excesses and labor's stupidity-its irresponsible use of strikes, its scorn of public opinion, its tolerance of gangsters in its ranks-had hastened the advent of such...
Football fever soars to its mysterious heights with every first autumn chill and the advent of an opening game, regardless of the team's prospects for the coming season. In the years just past these prospects have been dubious, to say the least, with strained optimism frequently bnoying up the hopes that some heavy tackle new to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best...
Football fever soars to its mysterious heights with every first autumn chill and the advent of an opening game, regardless of the team's prospects for the coming season. In the years just past these prospects have been dubious, to say the least, with strained optimism frequently buoying up the hopes that some heavy tackle now to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best...
...doubt whether there is any spot on the face of the earth where the advent of Western business, with its invariable accompaniments of liquor, gambling, prostitution and movies, has had graver consequences in debauching and demoralizing a people than among the inhabitants of the Fiji Islands, who had been lifted from cannibal savagery to simple but admirable Christian living in less than a century by the influence of Christian missions...
...most promising national organization strictly for collegiates concerned with influencing political issues is Students for Democratic Action, junior arm of Wilson Wyatt's Americans for Democratic Action. Even in its present state of acute growing pains it may represent with its alleged 5,000 membership in 75 chapters the advent of a new force which can effectively correlate the scattered social consciences of the political animals. Past patterns demand revision; for the so-called "student movement" of the last decade sported labyrinthine politics at once harlequinade and sorry spectacle. From 1935 to 1939 the American Student Union held a following...