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Despite President Roosevelt, there was evidence last week that the U. S. is returning to horse & buggy days. In Huntingburg, Ind., President Herman Heitman of Huntingburg Wagon Works (largest in the U. S.) announced: "The Depression didn't affect us in the least and today we are expanding. Present trends indicate a decided increase in business...
...central question is "how long before some administration will 'pack' the Court to affect decisions on the issue of liberty itself," it is obviously not only his right but his duty to speak. If, however, the implications are not as broad as this, he may rather be doing free education a disservice and banking the fires of intolerance. The Roosevelt measure will have far reaching effect, but many will deny that it can be considered primarily as a threat to the educational principles for which President Conant and Harvard stand. The result of entering the political lists when the institution...
...perusal of foundation ads used to affect little schoolboys, think what a reading of Esquire must do to a sensitive girl. She starts off by finding a young man on page 13, pictured in four colors and little else; the else however gives him "cool comfort and body ease" while being "so brief he doesn't know he's wearing them." A few pages further on she is thrilled by "the greatest thing they ever did to pants" (this is an old favorite), both these before she even approaches the reading matter...
...latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood swarms these days, are Tarkington silhouets made three-dimensional...
...Domestic Commerce by President Roosevelt in 1934. He sat in with State Department officials on the drafting of reciprocal trade treaties with Cuba, Belgium, Brazil, Haiti, Sweden, Colombia. Gentle, pipe-smoking President Murchison saw clearly the impossibility of damming Japanese cottons with further import duties. Restrictions strong enough to affect the Japanese would be absurdly unfair to European exporters, and U. S. policy forbade a sharply discriminatory tariff...