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...professors have more free time than usual. Certainly no temperamental reasons, no fondness for lecture desks should come before the tutorial system in this emergency. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in the tutorial teaching program is that it does not count for advancement, and is regarded chiefly as a chore that young instructors have to endure. Tutoring, in fact, has been the very essence of university teaching from the days of Abelard...
Into the basket on Smith's desk, on a typical day, may pop any number of neat typewritten notes signed F. D. R.-each meaning a new chore. For in wartime Washington, with its myriads of new officials, its changing pattern of authority, its good spots and bad, Smith & Coy are the doers on whom the President relies...
...jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
...Most onerous chore of the President is the signing of claim bills. Each Congressional session produces 2,000 minuscule claims for relief of private citizens whose feelings or property have been damaged. The Congress passes some 400 of these (the passage of each bill costs the U.S. $200, which is often more than the claim) and one-third of Mr. Roosevelt's record-breaking number of vetoes goes to claim bills each year-by law he must give a reason for each veto, which means costly research all over again. So he suggested legislation empowering the various executive departments...
...Next most onerous Presidential chore is approving at least 100 bills a session authorizing bridge construction or extending the permissible contract times. In order to save time & money, the President suggested that Congress delegate this chore to the Secretary...