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...least potent factor in this orderly demonstration in the interest of unobstructed study has been the attitude of Harvard faculty and alumni. By active complaint and deliberate discussion, representatives of the University have acquired a large following who favor repeal of this obnoxious legislation. The concerted action which swept sixty-one oath supporters out of the Massachusetts legislature is simply a local counterpart of the nationwide defeat of the Hearst type of noise maker. Harvard may give herself a pat on the back for having helped to combat this branch of American demagoguery...
When brought to his attention yesterday, Charles A. Mahady, Superintendent of the Reading Room, put this complaint aside as false, for it was he who instigated the plan for allowing students to leave books downstairs in order to promote, or at least to facilitate, getting to classes on time...
...investigation the complaint proved itself justified and was traced to a misunderstanding. So students may once more leave books downstairs before 9 o'clock, after which they must take them upstairs...
...Oklahoma speech on Thursday Governor Land on accused the President of concealing the facts about New Deal policies from the public, and he demanded that the chief executive tell the people exactly what he intends to do. During the last year the major complaint against President Roosevelt has been his lack of sincerity and honesty. Not only has he failed to live up to his campaign promises, but his entire lack of truthfulness with respect to his ill-considered measures has aroused an indignant public. He has concealed material facts concerning the administration and has attempted to sell himself...
...issue presented in the Ward-Bird complaint did indeed raise some knotty problems for U. S. merchants and manufacturers. In some cases big buyers may be driven even further into their own manufacturing operations. In others the manufacturers may have to choose the type of customer they intend to sell to, for the law seems to preclude the wide price differential necessary to retain both a wholesale and a retail trade...