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...tremendous money-making proposition, no matter how much will be distributed to charities. Further, the men who fell all over themselves before this hullaballoo have betrayed the trust placed in them if we realize that Columbia University has been a leader in placing intercollegiate football on a sane and decent level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

Steffens spoke of Lenin, with whom he has talked at length. "All of Lenin's confederates are narrow minded and decent communists; and so is Lenin himself, for all practical purposes. That is the only way be can find out how communism works. Yet underneath it all, Lenin's is perhaps the most liberal mind I have ever encountered...

Author: By Famous Muckraker, | Title: Steffens Says Students Argue and Think Too Much---Will Speak Tonight in Lecture Hall | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...noticed Saturday that the Army taught the College boys decency as well as football. When the Games was over they gave us a courtesy cheer and marched off like decent, self-respecting gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Toastie | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

...Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher education for women, which he called a "rather decent overcoming of a primitive feeling, and we know that new liberties are fragile and must be vigilantly defended. It is, we must realize, scarcely 200 years that it has been considered decent for a woman to publish a book." At the St. Louis dinner no appeals were made for donations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Banded Seven | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...present, therefore, it seems clear that reputable concerns must be given a fair chance to establish themselves as decent members of commercial society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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