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...barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National Racket Administration]. "Premier General Johnson - Wall...
...husband took the lady away. He thrust himself behind the bar, shoved its tender aside, loudly proclaimed that he would show the world how they mix and shake them in Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath Club is not noted for decorum on Saturday nights but Senator Long's behavior was far over its mark...
...Harvard School of Business last week issued a small opus entitled The Behavior of Consumption in Business Depression. Its author was Arthur R. Tebbutt, instructor in Business Statistics. It was a nice dry statistical study tending to show by many tables just how much con- sumption fell off from 1929 to 1932, but it packed a punch in its conclusions-a punch at the theories behind the Industrial Recovery...
...lady, whose sentences may seem rather primer-like but are just as lucid as a primer's, should have gathered such a lurid reputation as murderess of the King's English. Such readers should remember that in Alice B. Toklas Authoress Stein is on her best behavior. If they are sufficiently curious to look up some of her wilder work, this is the kind of thing they may find...
...affairs who is scheduled to speak before the Summer School tomorrow evening in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. If the object of education is the successful adjustment of the individual to his environment, then education per se must deal with the world, for the environment that conditions the behavior and shapes the destiny of men today is planetary. Among educators this is now accepted generally. That battle essentially...