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Exclaimed Senator Johnson: "The American people are entitled to all the information. ... To coerce action before Senators are fully informed, to compel consideration before every scrap of information and every pertinent document is before them should be resented by every individual Senator...
...Senate committees last week began a study of the provisions and implications of the London Naval Treaty. The document was officially before the Foreign Relations Committee where a friendly attitude toward it was manifested by members, including Pennsylvania's Senator Reed and Arkansas' Senator Robinson, both delegates to the London parley. The Naval Affairs Committee, under the nervous leadership of Maine's Senator Hale, conducted hearings in an atmosphere hostile to the agreement which was, under the Senate rules, none of its official business. Senator Hale, a big Navy man, did everything possible to develop the worst...
...reply, the irate Dean flayed the publication's "flagrant violation of a longestablished academic privilege-the inviolability of the classroom." Said he: "The document quoted is a condensation of a 25-page lecture and necessarily lacks the clarity of the lecture. . . . The words are true. ... I believe in all efforts directed toward perpetual peace, [but] I fear the efforts will all prove ineffectual...
...There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
...sanitoriums with a mental breakdown. It was caused by his foolish fear of being an epileptic, his overwork as a Yale undergraduate and later as an insurance clerk. Although wracked by wild illusions, his mind lucidly registered on his experiences. When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement for a National Committee on Mental Hygiene? William Henry Welch, William Herbert Perry Faunce, Jacob Gould...