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...should do so as an Empire; not as an island kingdom. Simply in terms of the flow of capital, Britain had put too much of her waning capital outside the Empire and too little into building up the Dominions. And the Dominions themselves were equally, or more greatly, at fault. They tried to "stabilize" themselves-in the fatal worldwide mood of fixed prices and fixed hours-instead of vigorously expanding themselves throughout the vast real estate which God and their fathers had given them...
...checkup of Los Angeles' 10,000 high-school seniors, directed that every senior must be in shipshape condition when he graduates in June. Needy students will get free medical and dental treatment. Seniors who qualify will get a certificate of fitness; those who remain unfit through their own fault will be flunked in physical education, may thereby fail to graduate...
TIME'S account of the fall of Singapore, especially the paragraphs headed "Whose fault?" certainly makes Hendrik Willem van Loon out to be a prophet...
...Congressional stampede which was to draw all attention away from the Murray plan. They took the fact that New Jersey was producing at 51 per cent below capacity because the factories were not working on the second and third shift, and came out with the tremendous lie that the fault lay in the 40-hour-a-week law. If labor would work more than 40 hours a week, and if there weren't so many hours lost on strikes, then Nelson would get all the production he wanted, they said. And they got politicians to go to work for them...
...major section of our editorial was devoted to pointing out that we did not hold Professor Casner to be personally at fault for the shortcomings of the Defense Information Bureau. If any such slight was construed, we did not intend it. However, it remains that there is room for improvement in the administrative set-up, and we feel that a full time staff is needed to help the students to select the branch of the service for which they are best fitted...