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...support of Two-Way Time Dr. Lewis suggested that a motion picture of the universe could as well be run backward as forward, would defy no laws. Accepting two-way Causality it is possible to conceive that events which will happen tomorrow might have influenced Caesar to cross the Rubicon...
...mobbed by the Fascists. Following this trial Salvemini went into voluntary exile, which subsequently became permanent. Losing his citizenship he became a man without a country, and since that time has acted as the unquestioned intellectual leader of the anti-Fascists. Unqualifiedly opposed to Fascism, which he considers a backward step, Professor Salvemini is now the ablest antagonist of Mussolini...
...When in 1919 and 1920 Prohibition was a 'new broom, it swept clean.' Since then we went backward for a time . . . but at no time to where we started. . . . We seem now to be passing through Prohibition at Its Worst. . . . The liquor problem, like the race problem, is an insoluble problem and will remain so for at least a generation. . . . All the evils of Prohibition claimed by the Wets exist. . . . But what is their program for coping with these evils? Virtually they have none, because they have so many and none of them practicable...
They decided to concentrate on Prince Nicholas, presumably because he is one of the three regents of Rumania, whereas Queen Marie has no official power. Leaning over backward, they printed nothing about H.R.H.'s morals, confined their last free words to his scandalous practices in respect to motor cars...
...bright person thought of this defense. But more important than the lateness of the excuse is the fact that it is simply not convincing. We expected to find many employers in this cold world mistreating and underpaying their help. We expected to see medieval niggardliness and harshness in many backward places, but we did not expect to find miserliness advocated by Harvard. It is like discovering Einstein to be thousands of years out of date, or our best friend to be a despicable thief. The disillusion hurts. Tilford E. Dudley...