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...Private Economy is Not at a Dead-End. . . . The persistent emphasis of this Committee on the necessity for a free, creative, and expanding life rests upon the conviction that it is the only kind of economic system under which a people has a decent chance to realize a sustained high standard of living. Our economy of free enterprise may not always have distributed justly the relative abundance it has created, but the politically dominated economies have created no abundance to distribute...
...scraped the dishes clean while eating. The general treatment was quite decent and humane, but the control of the entire camp was lax and very inefficient. For instance, the delivery of the mail from the men's to the women's camp (which was only 20 kilometers distant) took about three weeks, often being lost altogether. This anxiety, together with all the other ordeals, caused many to have a nervous breakdown. There were many different types of people among this large group of men. Jews and non-Jews were together&151;unlike German camps. There were Germans, Austrians...
...Nearly two-thirds of the nation's children did not have "a decent American standard of living...
Less pretentious than most of the publicity about it, considerably less inspired than Author Damon Runyon's perfect name for its typical hero, the picture paves its lowly way with the good intentions of decent little people. Irony is implicit in the situation that brings two of them face to face with the President (played by Lewis Stone in his most complacent Judge Hardy manner...
Importance of the questionnaire was stressed by Raymond E. Dennett '36, graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House. He stated, "From all evidence at the Brooks House information desk, there seems no question that the housing of graduate students is poor, inadequate, and expensive. There is apparently no decent standard between boarding houses on prices or service. A survey of this sort is badly needed to find out what exactly the situation...