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...view of my Ministers, any provision for unemployed persons should not only afford material assistance but should also be designed to maintain their morale and fitness to resume work when opportunities can be found. My government intend to bring forward measures dealing comprehensively with unemployment insurance and with the treatment of those unable to obtain work, and the considerations I have mentioned will be borne in mind in framing their proposals...
...financial straits of The Lampoon, printed a supposed confession from its president that it would have to shut up shop unless it got help. Especially affecting was the gravity with which "The Crime," as the wicked call it, shed tears over the thwarting of The Lampoon's efforts "to maintain a high standard of clean, wholesome humor." The Crime must be trying to hide its own financial difficulties by inventing some for The Lampoon. He quotes from a letter which he attributes to the business agent of The Crimson...
Professor Brinton, who is a former member of the Harvard Liberal Club and now associated with the Harvard Inquiry, observed that "Harvard under- graduates as a whole are relatively uninterested in politics. A small group, composed mostly of those naturally 'again the Government,' maintain the so-called liberalism of the New Republic and Nation type. The Liberal Club, captured by the Communist element in a recent election coup-d'etat, represents a certain type of 'liberalism,' while the Inquiry, concerned with investigations of social phenomena from the student standpoint, represents another. Outside of these groups there is little organized radicalism...
...like Heywood Broun '10, John Dos Passes '16, Walter Lippmann '10, and Henry Dana '03, are evidence of the liberalism which Harvard fosters, or at least does not quench. When a man comes to Harvard with the instinct of radicalism already developed, he is almost certain to maintain it; when the other type comes, the man with an aristocratic. New England training and a preconceived conservatism, he is almost sure to come in contact with ideas and theories that will give him at least a tolerance of liberalism. He often becomes a liberal himself, and sometimes turns into...
...that a few insiders deceive and mulct the public. Foes of commodity speculation claim that in bull markets the price of foods is lifted beyond reason, while in bear markets the farmers are cheated of their just returns. Professional speculators in all cases insist that they are needed to maintain an active market, necessary in stocks for investors and in commodities for merchants who must hedge their purchases of raw materials. Speculator Cutten, well aware that further regulation threatens the wheat pit, which "is for me as the deck of his ship to a sailor," insisted: "Speculation is wrong when...