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...great rail tycoon is onetime (1926-31) Senator Arthur Robinson Gould of Maine. But he has been a happy rail tycoon and a prosperous one. The great blight which has fallen upon U. S. transportation systems has bothered...
...Cool idge, Alfred Emanuel Smith and others whose voices could command the respect of investors and legislators, would soon look into the railroad situation. There was truth in the story, though its exact nature was probably to remain nebulous for some weeks. It was apparent that the railroads, a blight on the U. S. economic structure, will receive further attention...
...present instance, it would certainly have been easy for you to find out what is done in the training of high school teachers. Your statement that "it is, of course, high school teachers mainly who are attacked by the blight of 'method'" is altogether erroneous. Your subsequent statement "a man takes college courses in Education, studies child psychology and pedagogy at a normal school, and finally goes into a classroom with slight knowledge of and slight interest in the subject which he is teaching" is equally wide of the mark...
...With a Chekhovian eye for the follies and pettinesses that have jockeyed her characters into their blind alleys, Authoress Dix, hitherto a writer of juvenile books, has not the Chekhovian restraint to leave them there, to wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel...
This division is the greatest misfortune which has yet menaced the illstarred Democrats. As long as they present a united front any record will be a good one to put before the voters in November. But dissension in the ranks will not only blight Democratic chances for the presidential election, but will also block constructive legislation at the present time...