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...letter was ill-timed, illadvised, unsolicited and out of keeping with his function as Ambassador." barked Indiana's Van Nuys, proposing that the Ambassador be called home to tell who his fascist billionaire...
...precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great Game Of Politics: "He is the bone and sinew of the machine. He is its foundation and the real source of its strength. If he does not function, the machine decays. If he quits, the machine dies. He is the actual connecting link between the people and the organization, and he is the only connecting link-the only man in the machine who has any point of direct contact with the voters, who knows anything about them...
Raymond Dennett '36, graduate secretary, voiced the appreciation of the organization for Clark's long and loyal services. He went on to say that the House could not function properly without Clark's cooperative, devoted, and consistent service...
With the announcement that a Council of Economics Concentrators has been organized, the question arises, "What is the function of such a Council?" Naturally, it is the more eager concentrators who form such a body, and it somehow works out that the more eager are the more radical. There is thus danger that the Council may gather together a fervid little knot of propagandists, eager for the Call, and bent on missionary work among the economic heathens. Any insistence on generally unaccepted doctrines would be bound to alienate great numbers of potentially valuable followers, and would end in futility...
...rank in the development and teaching of legal thought. Thus, in all fairness to the man and to the University to which he is to give his services, one can ask "Is he fitted to teach and to direct the teaching of lawyers?" For Harvard, besides its function as a laboratory for new thought and a reservoir for the preservation of old, ought also to be a training school in the practice of law by young...