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...some days they received literally sacks of objecting mail, not all from brokers and businessmen but even from schoolteachers and pastors. In the Senate Banking Committee such innocuous sections of the bill as the declaration of public policy (with which even President Whitney of the Stock Exchange found no fault) were centres of rousing wrangles. Alert to the wind's way, Senate Majority Leader Robinson last week called the bill "very extreme," adding: "I believe we will pass a stockmarket bill which will not damage anyone excessively and still be effective." Speaker of the House Rainey said: "I haven...
...many were really unbalanced. In a formal report to the Board of Education he declared that there were "no teachers in the system who are 'insane' in the sense in which the layman understands this word." In fact, said he, the whole rumpus was the fault of a bungling newshawk who thought he meant maniacs when he said some teachers were manic-depressives. And he had not said that a teacher twisted a chair-leg in a boy's eye. She had merely twisted it near...
Hearst jingoists stumping for war under the pretext of preparedness are at fault from the beginning because an outstanding lesson of the World War was that preparedness is not a factor that operates to preserve peace but rather one to foment and encourage war. The real lesson to be derived from gruesome war pictures is a condemnation of militarism and its pseudonym "pre-paredness." Your article, a frank statement of facts, does well in exposing this perversion of the facts...
...another decree, aimed chiefly at Andreyev's railroadmen: Any worker who falls short of his quota "either in quality or quantity" will be fined; if his failures are due to abnormal working conditions, the deductions from his pay will not exceed 33% ; if his failures are his own fault, 100% will be the limit. After that, Stalin and Andreyev waited, listening...
...great cross on his chest, exhorting the villagers to seek God. His last dance was for a society function. He made a cross on the floor, danced with such fury that the audience sat frozen with fright. Diaghilev visited him once after that, wept and said: "It is my fault, what shall I do?" Madame Nijinskaya ends her book with the prayer she said when she first saw Nijinsky dance. There follows a list of people who have stood by him through his illness. There are only five names: the late Paul Dupuy, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Sr., Harpist Carlos...