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...broke down on the specific job of trying to draft a new constitution that would make the Government of India responsible chiefly to an Indian Parliament instead of to Great Britain's autocratic Viceroy of India. The larger issue, namely whether India should receive "dominion status" with its implicit right of secession from the British Commonwealth, was not even considered by the Conference-despite the fact that it was the Second Indian Round Table Conference and should have been the last...
...exaggerated seriousness. The determination to win at all costs has overridden things which properly precede it in importance, among them a decent respect for the rights of individuals. In the present case that determination has revealed itself in a ruthless professionalism which has not scrupled even to cast an implicit insult at its football rival. The implication that Notro Dame was not unwilling in bribe a member of the Southern California squad considerably dulls the luster of the Trojan victory...
...Cabinet, went a step further last week. Addressing a convention of the National Association of Postmasters at Omaha, Neb., he delivered a speech which only said one thing to his listeners: get busy and stump for the ticket. Coming from the Postmaster General to his postmasters it contained the implicit footnote: orders is orders...
...does not sound very promising, perhaps. But Authoress Cather is better than her implicit word: if she does not hold you breathless, she never lets you nod. And when you have finished her unspectacular narrative you may be somewhat surprised to realize that you have been living human history. Willa Cather's Northeast passages are never purple. Captious critics might complain that she sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When...
...active disbeliever in capitalist economics, Steffens is skeptical of them; thinks not only that business controls government but that politicians are venal by profession. His journalism might be said to have been more revelatory than reformist. His (implicit) advice: find the facts, clear your soul of cant...