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With Senate action dubious and a Presidential veto certain the most solemn warning uttered outside Washington on H. R. 13,991 was that of Pundit Walter Lippmann in the New York Herald Tribune: "This bill is a package of dynamite quite sufficiently charged to wreck the Democratic party and blow up the Roosevelt administration. The opportunities for corruption are infinite. The appearance of favoritism, injustice and scandal is certain. . . . The sponsors of this bill are very naïve indeed if they think that a billion dollars in taxes can be levied upon necessities . . . without provoking violent resentment...
...smallest of the year. The fight was one of the most exciting. Poreda, a handsome, over-confident Pole, came out en- thusiastically for the first round. He outboxed Schaaf and continued to outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught Poreda squarely on the jaw, landed him on the ring floor so suddenly that he forgot to stay down for a count of nine...
Everything considered, the present decline in the student body of the universities is by no means a serious blow. In the first place, colleges have been, undoubtedly, overcrowded in the past due to the modern craze for a college education. This overcrowding has led in large measure to a lowering of standards or to the formation of unpleasantly routine arrangements. It is a truism to say that the best work is done by the more able, and not by the more numerous. In addition to weeding out, the depression has caused students in general to adopt a more serious attitude...
...London 'Change common shares of Anglo-Persian slumped 12% in value (a paper loss to His Majesty's Government of over ?2,000,000). Reza Shah Pahlevi had struck so suddenly that Anglo-Persian Board Chairman Sir John Cadman was not in London to receive the blow but in San Francisco. To California newshawks, long-jawed Sir John said with perfect aplomb. "All this is not so serious as it might appear, inasmuch as Persia lacks power to cancel the concession...
...this dilemma the CRIMSON, with becoming modesty, wishes to offer a brief proposal, which will solve two problems at a blow. Let Great Britain, in return for a reduction in her debt to this country, cede one of those barren islands in the North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...