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More dubious are the theories that sunspots affect the habits and numbers of animals, cause droughts, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes. The withering drought of 1929 was close to a sunspot peak, but there were other drought causes-light snows, early thaws-the preceding winter. California's Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, S. J., "Padre of the Rains," had astonishing success in predicting weather by sunspots, but Father Jerome is dead now and his secret seems to have died with...
...pronouncement which "outrages decency and leaves us with no alternative." It is difficult to believe that a move so clumsy as this will onlist the support of British opinion. After all, the October Club was not much more than a symbol of conviction, and no university decree can affect the particular conviction upon which it was based. The only result will be that communists throughout the world have one more reason to enforce their contempt of capitalism as an intellectual adversary. The same congested mentalities which interfere with academic freedom are evidently at work here. From Christianity down, no vital...
...wholesale price index, was way up at $1.42, a rise of 1½? from the week before. To squash the dollar down toward the 1926 commodity value of 100?, President Roosevelt called in his ten-man monetary team. They decided, without much real knowledge of how soon it would affect the dollar's commodity value, to wrestle the gold dollar out in the world arena (see p. 51). ¶His preoccupation with his dollars made it fruitless for the President to talk War Debts with Britain's emissary. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Undersecretary Acheson and Governor Black...
...merits or faults of a coach as they affect his continuance in office, are matters for the employer, the H.A.A., and dissatisfaction fostered by a carping press is not the best encouragement for him. While holding his position, he has a claim to the support of the undergraduates, which should be recognized. The graduates, however much they may fill up the Stadium, are an unorganized body. If they are the ones who are dissatisfied, the press should consider their cause and refrain from idle talk about "dissatisfaction at Harvard...
...Council, in which the industrialists and the workers had equal numerical representation. The Whitley Report did not set any limits to the power of these Councils; it set them up, and having set them up, found them good, because they were roughly "democratic" in their composition and did not affect any of the serious problems of a modern industrial society. They left the gulf between capital and labour unnarrowed and made no progress in the direction of real industrial democracy. As instruments for the arbitration of wage disputes they had, through the participation of the government, a vague kind...