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...than does a college graduate with a Ph.D., and are far less appreciative. The majority lack foresightedness, hate work, and don't try to hold a job if they have one. If office girls (many right now are working for $50 per month out of which they must maintain themselves solely) came to work prepared to get spunky and independent every five minutes, there just wouldn't be any office girls. The trouble with the average domestic servant is that she has never been out in the business world, is unacquainted with conditions, doesn't know what...
Clipped Ambassador Welles in Havana to the revolting non-commissioned officers: "If the military leaders of the movement will guarantee lives and property and maintain peace and order, the sovereignty of Cuba can be saved...
...community, the principle that no individual man, woman or child has a right to do things that hurt their neighbors. . . . In the old days it was unfair to our neighbors to allow our cattle to roam on their land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody hire their children when they were little bits of things...
...great exporting countries-Canada, U. S., Australia, Argentina-had been drawn up early in the summer by U. S. Delegate Henry Morgenthau (TIME, July 3 et seq.). Now the wheat importing nations seemed to be doing everything possible to wreck it by insisting on their rights to maintain quota restrictions and subsidies for their farmers. Suddenly came the miracle. An international conference actually agreed to do something, accomplished something, was ready to sign something, all within five days. Delegates of the four exporting countries agreed to limit their combined wheat exports for 1933-34 to 560,000,000 bushels...
Despite the rising tide of course work and the increased demands of athletic coaches on the undergraduate's time and energy, outside activities maintain their particular appeal to the student who looks for something more than 16 C's and a pass in Freshman physical education out of his four years in college...