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Left leaderless when President Roosevelt turned all his energies to the NRA crisis, Congress last week gave a prime demonstration of its inability to function as an independent branch of the U. S. Government...
...company was getting more than its share of attention. On the Fox lot, where Producer Schenck's good friend Winfield Sheehan is production chief but where Jesse L. Lasky and others have been making independent pictures for Fox release for the last two years. Twentieth Century will function much as it has in the past. With a better score of hits than any other comparable organization in the industry, its autumn schedule. to attend to which Producer Zanuck was last week returning from a bear-hunting jaunt in Alaska, includes Ivanhoe, Sing Governor, Sing, The Diamond Horseshoe...
This, we submit, is just as it should be. Certainly, it is not the least important function of a university to preserve for itself and its students an attitude of mind that is above partisanship and eager to acclaim human worth wherever found. American can be proud that its oldest university is one that never sidesteps this duty...
...thesis is part and parcel of the other; if a firm and longsighted tradition of building students into graduate workers, graduate workers into scientists, was followed through its broader cultural implications, the teaching morals and the tutorial function in the Physics Department would become an inspiration instead of a vulgar failure...
Although the "brain-trust" has been taking a political beating of late, the need of specialized authorities in our governmental agencies remains more evident than ever. In no other way can a permanent, non-partisan personnel be created which will function with the efficacy and morale of the British civil service. --Boston Herald...