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...opportunity will be given for corrupt organizations to reform themselves. After all the past is not of primary interest except as it affects the future. The real importance of investigating the corruption in the Shipping Board is that it will enable us to put our shipping on a firm basis at once, where it can compete with England's, which is reported to be "booming." It is extremely important for New York to have houses built immediately; hence the importance of cleaning up the graft in the building trades. When we are asked to be optimistic we are not asked...
...influential means of molding public opinion. This profession has now reached such an advanced and scientific stage in its development that it is a logical means by which the people of the country can be convinced that, contrary to their present opinion, business is really on a firm basis and that there is no cause for the present depression...
...pleasant to hear such assurances from the Ambassador. The fact that Italy has kept a firm grip on herself is not only encouraging to other nations which are passing through the same crisis, but tends also to stabilize Europe and to hasten its sluggish progress toward after-war prosperity by an increase in trade markets. It is sane and steady work, and not unrest that is so sorely needed to-day throughout the world; and Italy is giving...
...platform tonight, besides governor Cox, will be President Eliot, a firm supporter of the League, who will preside and introduce the Governor; Ellery Sedgwick '94, a member of the Board of Overseers and editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic Monthly; John F. Moors '83, a Fellow of Harvard College and a member of the Boston Finance Commission; Frank W. Taussig '79, former chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission and a member of President Wilson's Second Industrial Conference; and Michael A. O'Leary, Chairman Democratic State Committee...
Professor W. E. Hocking of the Department of Philosophy is also a firm supporter of the League. Mr. Moors and Professor Hocking will make the League issue the main subject of their talk...