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...first time a major Eastern university has instituted such a move. The Harvard team won no League games this year, and is losing three veterans by graduation. They face an equally hard schedule next year, and the next four weeks will count heavily in the effort to attain playing experience and improved teamwork...
...peace than filling their own pockets, we should stand as good a chance of avoiding a war as now. If the United States is one of the countries best fitted to manufacture armaments, the unifying of that ability under an authority whose prime interest is peace might conceivably attain some end other than merely "allowing this business to pass into the hands of those European powers." Most assuredly in the event of war the United States would have to cease sending munitions to all countries concerned, and if the result were no better than merely turning the business over...
...America will be happy at the turn of events. Those businesses which may be affected adversely by tariff reductions are probably not going to be so happy. But, as Mr. Wallace says, some businesses are bound to be injured and the best theory to pursue is to try to attain the maximum good...
Many an observer saw another reason for NRA's eclipse: Because of NRA's comparative failure to attain the two main results at which it was aimed the Administration has been glad to let it be forgotten, to shift public attention on other programs that may possibly achieve better results...
...June, 1830, no one suspected that by the end of the month Charles X would be fleeing from Paris and his government collapsed. A week ago not even the most optimistic royalist would have predicted that the resentment of the people at the Stavisky affair would attain its present proportions: yet yesterday, the Parisian revolt began to resemble a national revolution both in violence and in extent. A week ago the question was whether or not the Chautemps government would get a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies; today there is serious doubt if the Republic itself...