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...actually favor the candidacy of Herbert Hoover? If you say that you do, will you explain the inconsistency of your present advocacy and your very evident attitude of four years ago when you secretly opposed his nomination...
Saying that "a new secession of the true German spirit and soul is beginning." Emil Ludwig in the current Nation proceeds to explain the causes of this movement. When Wilhelm II became emperor, there was a similar secession. The great German artists withdrew from the official circle, and the court favorites were pedestrian mediocrities. With the coming of the revolution however, Ludwig felt, "the eternal division between intellect and state, to which the tragedy of Germany was due, had been ended." The ministries were given to men of real ability, In 1921 the spirit of liberalism prevailed...
...Publicly to against expound himself and last week denounce the "plot"against himself last week Josef Stalin chose his Right-Hand-Man-Of-The-Moment, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch. Ingenious, this henchman found the perfect metaphor with which to explain away major breaks in the Five-Year Plan and heap all praise upon Dictator Stalin. Keynoted Comrade Kaganovitch: ". . . Why wail over broken eggs when we are trying to make an omelette...
Haled into a Los Angeles court to explain a debt of $292.10, huge Jess Willard, onetime heavyweight boxing champion, told a municipal referee that he was working for about $15 a week as a bouncer in a meat market he once owned. He had himself photographed ejecting a tiny newshawk. Later he confessed: "That's all a joke about my being a bouncer. There's nothing to bounce around here except pieces of meat. I'm manager here. . . . Can't tell you my salary but it's a lot more than $15 weekly. Why that...
...matter of fact, however, this is no sudden development, but the result of a steadily growing policy of inviting criticism from men who can take an objective view of the administration of the many departments of the University. It is bromidic to explain that Harvard needs such comment, which transcends class and sectional boundaries. The more intelligent criticism and suggestion the University can receive from interested, enlightened observers, the more it can grow in service...