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...disapproval, nursed a fat brief case between his knees. With him was Author John Dos Passes, stern commentator on the American Scene, ingenuously delighted with his first National Convention which he, too, was to report for the New Republic at 2¢ a word. Publisher Henry Goddard Leach of the Forum looked on austerely from a private box. Scripps-Howard Colyumist Heywood Broun settled his flaccid paunch behind a narrow desk, wrote many a witty crack...
...pestering of legislators at homes, hotels, clubs. Many States require lobbyists to register as such, sometimes to pay fees. Not so in Washington. The late sarcastic Senator Caraway used to call the lobbyists "The Third House." Others have suggested that lobbyists be recognized and dignified as such, given a forum of their own in Washington, given rules & regulations and caused to function as a debating body in the Government where the private friends & foes of legislation could air their views for the edification of busy legislators...
...planned to have a Democratic and a Republican Congressman address the meeting first, after which will come a debate between two members of each club, and finally the gathering is to break up into an open forum and discussion. The Republican Congressman may be Robert Luce of Cambridge, while the Democrat has not yet been chosen...
...editorial in the June Forum attacks the grim problem of employment facing so many of the alumni of 1932 by suggesting that the well-to-do graduates spend at least two years abroad "exploring the minds and strange conduct of the very different peoples who make our planet so much unalike." The editor cites the fact that the number of men from the Harvard class of 1932 who intend to enroll in the graduate schools is ten percent greater than that of the class of 1926 who remained for post-graduate study. If as many as possible of these...
...hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free for the hatreds which the organizers chose to sow. This is the sketch which a college graduate living among the miners draws in the July Forum...