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...universal tendency in such cases to shower sympathy on the workers, whose pickets are broken up, whose assemblies are forbidden, and whose political activity is curtailed. Much sympathy is doubtless deserved, but it is a mistake to assume that the operators have no reasonable case. The cut throat competition of small independent mines demands of owners a drastic economy even in prosperous times. When conditions are poor and orders scarce that need is even more pressing. Wages must be cut if the mines are to operate at all; and then as always, the present impasse develops...
...beginning to have an infantile passion for his middle-aged nurse. The story ends with Connie making plans to go away somewhere, sometime, with Mellors. Aldous Huxley calls Lady Chatierley's Lover "a strange and beautiful book; but inexpressibly sad."What he would call this version of it will doubtless never be printed...
...People on the list had an immediate chance for a $15 a share profit, later for a $137 profit. But they had to promise not to sell for two and a half years without first offering it to the company. If they kept the stock, as many doubtless did rather than incur Samuel Insull's displeasure, they now are of course on the long, long Insull mourners' bench...
...reason for the recent ruling doubtless did not originate in an aim of the Labor Department to deprive each and every foreign student of income acquired in part time work. The regulation primarily checks persons with little academic purposes in mind, who enroll in a university such as Columbia, for example, with the occult aim of living and working in the United States without coming in under the quota regulation. "These pseudo students deserve the restriction that the Doak ruling is destined to give. The deplorable fact is that a somewhat scattered group of foreign students, some of whom...
Advertising has in the past been regarded as a necessary evil of journalism. It is doubtless true that a great part of newspaper advertising is an economic waste, raising the price of the product without improving, the quality. But, as Dean Ackerman states, "journalism as a business is a public service unique in American economics," and with the problem exception of radio broadcasting, no business has the possibility of such direct and powerful control over the standards of modern advertising. Too often newspapers have though it possible to maintain a "courageous" editorial policy while at the same time maintaining...