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Thus whether we look at the forest or at the trees, adult education looks highly desirable and highly workable. Columbia's example should allay the qualms of the skeptics who don't like experiments. Harvard needs only a little urging and a final push to do for Massachusetts what Columbia has done for New York...
...Samuel Hoare's speech to the House of Commons should allay all doubts as to the eventual solution of the East African crisis. In announcing that under no conditions will Britain use military force against Italian aggression, the Foreign Secretary has laid the ghost of a general European conflict and at the same time demonstrated that the cynical attitude long prevalent at Geneva can eventually overcome even the staunchest souls...
...after the clash occurred. These orders were implicitly obeyed. Allegations that my troops recently attacked or occupied Afdub [Jan. 20] are without foundation. "The action of the Italian Government in mobilizing troops in Italy as a precautionary measure causes me extreme regret, as it undermines confidence and fails to allay suspicions among my people...
Even the more unlikely contingencies have been thought of and prevented. The Cambridge Building Inspector, in his eagerness to deserve well of his country, has zealously surveyed the foundations to allay all fears that a hidden weakness should precipitate the President and his encourage into the cellar...
...Utah banker who since last January has served Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau as a special assistant. Grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a rich & pious Mormon, Governor Eccles graduated from Brigham Young College at 19, promptly went to Scotland as a missionary. As if to allay fears of his Leftish theories, his business career was carefully itemized last week in a long White House release. He had been: 1) one of the founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came through the banking crisis in such splendid condition...