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...Federation, one hundred of Chicago's civic and business leaders will name the conditions which this boy must fulfill in order to qualify as the best citizen in 1950. Although these men know quite well that they can not prophecy correctly, they can decide what is the present ideal of citizenship, and by pinning these ideals on some young Chicagoan, give them a humman interest and a currency which they would not have otherwise. In confining the contest to boys between fourteen and eighteen years the Federation runs the risk, of course, of selecting one who will prove a hopeless...
...filled diplomatic posts in Siam, Russia, China, Japan. In 1919, he became Chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State Department, last year was elevated to an assistant Secretaryship of State. As soon as Minister Schurman accepted the Berlin post, Mr. MacMurray was put forward as the ideal candidate for Peking. Would politics interfere? Could Senator Curtis persuade the President to appoint his fellow-Kan- san, William S. Culbertson? Could some other Senator win the post for some one else? In a word...
...Democracy−Government of the People, for the People, by discussion, preferably at leisure"−to some such ideal, political leaders devote themselves during the long Congressional holidays...
...Genre THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS?G. W. Morris and L. S. Wood?Oxford University Press ($1.50). An ideal, if limited, text book on the rise of the British Empire with a chapter on the U. S. Obviously a "young people's" book; but, because it is simple, direct, treats of principles rather than facts, it is of unusual interest and a new and better genre of history...
...support of this theory of the lack of irritation. Dr. Kirkpatrick quotes several members of the faculty as characterizing the system under the present executive as "ideal". "Dean Pound", he adds, "says there is a good deal of irritation beneath the surface but thinks that the present form of government will continue indefinites...