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...police and prosecution by giving them means of making criminals talk. In England, as soon as a man is arrested, he is brought before a judge, and forced to testify. If he refuses, he is thrown into prison for contempt of court. Some such system here would help to avoid errors...
...Indianapolis last summer during the transcontinental Bendix Trophy race (TIME, July 10). Three months ago his backers withdrew. Granny Granville closed his Springfield shop, went to Manhattan to look for a job. Last week bad luck dogged him to Spartanburg, S. C. His little Gee Bee crashed to avoid CWA workers who did not know enough to clear the runway of the local airport on which he was trying to land. Granny Granville was killed...
...themselves, through no fault of their own, displaced in recurring periods of depression must be provided for by Government, with funds raised from the taxpayers. If no better method can be thought of, we are constrained to resort to the dole. But should not every effort be made to avoid this demoralizing form of public charity? The people of Massachusetts are willing to contribute to any stricken section of the country; but is there no limit...
...important thing to do is to heel some organization, to make yourself known, to make a fraternity and possibly, if that summit of campus ambition can be attained, a Senior Society. One is careful, particularly during his first two years, to speak only to the right people, and to avoid those of less prominent rank. Andover men, outnumbering those from any other school, place particular importance on this sort of thing and usually excel...
...refreshing to find Mr. Wallace frankly recognizing the great problem which now confronts America along with the rest of the world, and the full implications of which no thinking man can avoid facing. This problem, of course, is--and to state it sounds almost like a truism--whether we are to embrace economic nationalism, or embark on a policy of vigorous internationalism with all that that implies, or merely to continue drifting. Wallace himself is in favor of a policy of internationalism, but he admits that it is extremely likely that it could succeed. We will then, he says...