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...leaders is unable to forget that always in the history of U.S. business whatever went up had to come down again sooner or later, and that such periods of general prosperity as the present have always brought on a reaction in industry and trade. This conservative school is thus intent on finding out weak spots in U. S. business, and many of its members have thought the chief two are the construction industry and the stock market...
...London and died in the part. This was some time ago, and the play as currently revealed suffers slightly from the passage of time. It is about inter-racial marriage, a subject on which views have changed so radically of late. The old Jewish father in the play is intent on dissuading his daughter from her intended marriage to a wholly eligible gentile. He finds, however, that she has been visiting the young man of nights and ferociously changes his opinion...
...problems are not easy. The obstacles placed by selfish and corrupt influences do not disappear with the blast of a trumpet. The ordinary citizen is intent on his own business. He is hard to arouse and to keep aroused to the fact that good city government is good business and that the small favors he receives from political machines are dearly bought...
Since books of ethical intent are among the most popular at Princeton, there must be in other colleges a considerable amount of interest in the subject. That the place of science in life concerns the undergraduate is encouraging. If only a few retain this interest, America will benefit. To a nation accused of money madness, devotees of a less economic and more abstract subject than business bring a healthy balance. Mr. Young's few statistics disclose a desirable tendency...
...internationally famed editor of Die Zukunft (The Future) "meets" most of his contemporaries with intent to flay them. It is the opinion of the pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, who prefaces the book, that Harden's "power of delineating a personality is more than photographic," that "the hidden thoughts and secret emotions" of men "are as plain to him as if he pierced their being with a mental...