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...prospect of this investigation, together with the wave of dissent against any debt ''adjustments," thoroughly alarmed President Hoover, who saw he had another losing Congressional fight on his hands. To his defense Secretary of the Treasury Mellon rallied with a ringing public statement in which he harped on "realities." He pointed out that Britain funded her War Debt for about 80% in gold dollars. With sterling at par her debt payment this year would be ?32,800,000 but now it would take ?48,100,000 for her to meet her obligations...
...that the first speaker on the Democratic side commits his party to the principle that it's the duty of government to go into the Treasury and dole out money to those in need [applause]. Is there a man on the Democratic side who now wishes to rise and dissent from committing his party to the dole policy [nobody rises]. Very well, then, the issue is clean cut. The Demo-cratic party in the House would commit the Government to the dole...
Republican Beedy: Only one man rises in dissent. [Raucous Republican laughter and applause...
That children should be sent to school -nursery school or kindergarten-as early as the fourth or fifth year, is a theory held by many U. S. educators. Dissent came last week from Dr. David Snedden, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The ninth or tenth year, said he, is soon enough, save for children from economically and socially unsuitable homes. For children on farms, in villages and suburbs, in all but the largest cities, there is environment favorable to natural, wholesome growth. Let such children play until they are 10; intellectual and social development can come later...
...called Eastman "best known" and "most listened to"? TIME might also have added that the liberalness of Commissioner Eastman has caused newspaper editorial writers to place him on the same shelf with the so-called liberal minority on the Supreme Court Bench whose every utterance or dissent is overpublicized as a liberal voice whether the matter at hand be of real importance...