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...confess all this talk about the Roosevelt Birthday Ball makes me sick. How can you do anything about infantile paralysis until you know what causes it Only a small part of the money is to be used for research into the causes of the disease the rest for so-called prevention and cures. Anyway, the trouble is not primarily with a lack of funds for research. We've got money to spend but we haven't got enough ideas on the subject. I wouldn't have written this if I hadn't just spoken with two internationally know medical research...
...grim axiom of Soviet trials is "They Always Confess." Last week that axiom again proved sound in Leningrad where Joseph Stalin was having privately polished off a group of redoubtable Old Bolsheviks-some older than Stalin in the Communist aristocracy founded by Nikolai Lenin...
This is a thoroughly unhealthy attitude on the part of the authorities. In expressing their preference for female service they have admitted much of the wrong that is in their system. They confess that their methods of discipline are too unreasonable for even the most docile undergraduate, that they could get away much more successfully with petty tyranny exercised over professional waitresses who are less apt, to cry out against conditions. There can be no other reason why outside help should be preferred, unless it is the arrangement of more convenient hours, because student waiters are certainly on the average...
...from her husband. The prize-fighter discovers the two together just after they have been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder. He returns in time to confess. How and why the prize-fighter escapes the electric chair, cinema audiences will understand only if they have seen the very beginning of Jealousy and waited patiently to the very last. Audiences who miss the whole thing will not be losers...
...struggle for superiority in arms is a symptom of more fundamental animosities. It is true, as the Senator laments, that the impending renunciation of treaty restrictions gives the lie to the professions of pacifism which our diplomats bandy about, but those paper limitations, so readily abandoned, are rather a confession of intent to give battle than a statement of Christian generosity. The signatories, like mutually mistrustful urchins, concede one another a theoretically equal start, but tacitly confess the possibility of hostilities...