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More important and more basic than the questions of amount and segregation, is the dire shortage of teachers. Though intimately connected with school construction, it is badly neglected in the President's proposals. His only offering is "my earnest hope that ... the states and communities will give increasing attention to this taproot of all education ..." It is good to be earnest, but far more important to enact legislation and allocate funds when the nation's schools are short 180,000 teachers. The shortage of teachers and trained personnel can be met only by the federal government. "States and communities...
...entangled itself in its own red tape this fall, preventing students from securing tickets by any of the rules, the Council persuaded Mr. Lunden to open its doors one Friday afternoon to some two hundred undergraduates who had been baffled by his system. When PBH fell into dire financial straits, the Council came to the rescue not only with its own funds, but with three thousand dollars it "inspired" from other sources...
...Morgan libraries felt so strongly about the matter that they formed a Manuscripts Emergency Committee. "The threat to the integrity of existing collections," said the committee, "is real and immediate. We believe that the position taken by the Government is untenable." Other bookmen began to ask all sorts of dire questions. Would the New York Public Library, for instance, have to give up Washington's Farewell Address? And what about the Adams papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society-and the Hoover papers at Stanford University? Said Librarian William Lingelbach of the American Philosophical Society : "Every library...
MANY foreign businessmen like to protest that their success or failure hinges on fluctuations in U.S. tariffs; e.g., when the U.S. boosted bicycle tariffs British businessmen forecast dire effects for their industry. Yet few of them look to see where their own countries stand on tariffs. There is strong evidence that while the U.S. has been steadily reducing tariffs, many other nations have been dragging their feet. Example: after the U.S. cut duties on cotton goods up to 50%, Japanese imports doubled; they poured in so fast that Japan last week clamped on an embargo for fear of U.S. reprisals...
Almost every aspect of the show seemed to suffer the dire effects of too little time. Fortunately, there were frequent indications that this was the major shortcoming of the whole affair; most of the actors showed that despite their lack of polish they were capable of highly creditable performances, and John van Itallie's direction, too, seemed a basically competent job spoiled by lack of time for study and correction...