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...Congress did not include some matters on which the President wanted at least to go on record before adjournment. He planned a list of special messages to Congress. One was to urge repeal of the coconut oil tax-a graceful gesture towards the Philippines, for which the President would doubtless not keep Congress in session to force action. Another was a message on War Debts, not demanding any important legislation, because the Senate would argue for weeks on that subject. A third was a message on "social" legislation-a new Labor Board, unemployment insurance, old age pensions for industry...
...Trial? If his suit goes to trial, the defense will doubtless put General MacArthur on the witness stand and cross-examine him in detail about his damaged dignity. Painfully aware that the country can easily be provoked to laughter by such an action, some of the general's brother officers on the General Staff begged him to drop his complaints. But he and his lawyers were adamant. Equally aware of the same ludicrous possibilities, Merry-go-Rounders Pearson & Allen engaged the most spectacular, publicity-wise lawyer to be found in Washington, dark, bombastic Ferdinand Pecora, investigator for the Senate...
...trenchant wise-man, "is the will of the strong." But it is often unseasonable to bring the truth to light, lest in the minds of lesser men, it dazzles, and becomes no longer a somatic observation, but a personal compulsion. Judge Charles S. Sullivan of the Charlestown court is doubtless well-read in concepts of justice, and with long experience on the magistrate's bench unquestionably has formulated his own position concerning this most difficult ethical problem. Before his judicial vision unfolds more than seven-hundred years of British Common Law. The pillars of his chambers rest upon it; Coke...
...carry on creative work." While most educators recognize the value of research and the value of splendid teaching, there are many who overlook the point which President Conant, since assuming the presidency of Harvard, has so effectively maintained: that teaching and research are inextricably connected. While there are doubtless some few men who make inspiring teachers, and are yet temperamentally unfitted to carry the burden of investigation and creative study, such cases are rare indeed. There are few preceptors whose minds continual research does not enliven, stimulate and constantly refresh; and the most pitiful man on the faculty...
Skunks are pretty beasts, harmless unless unduly angered by crass attempts upon their lives; and, indeed, if let alone would doubtless lead a selfish existence with little thought of harm. But not to be allowed the freedom of our green is indeed a trial not easily to be withstood. If we let cows come to our lawn, why not let the gentle pussy of the wood; why must we moderns always be so eager to destroy each sign of placid sanity in our hurried life? And why, oh, why, have we no thanks for the Gentle beast who thus...