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...become his job, went on to other tasks. In 1933 he formed the Council of State Governments, with the idea that each State should at least contribute "a stenographer's salary" ($1,000 to $5,000 a year depending on the size of the State) to maintain an organization for interstate cooperation. Only nine states so far are paying members of it, but last week at the Shoreland Hotel near the University of Chicago, 86 representatives of 33 states assembled to put a new piece of the Council's governmental machinery in motion...
...complained of insolence and insubordination among the crew. One gentleman from East Orange roared: "Rottenest bunch of Red agitators I've ever seen!" Another said he was roundly berated by a steward whom he addressed as "boy." Dollar Line officials declared they were making a sincere effort to maintain the best possible service under the circumstances...
...general unrest in the maritime labor field is a matter of common knowledge. Conditions under which so-called able seamen and lifeboat men certificates are issued are known to make possible, if not encourage, flagrant fraud. How can we . . . hope that underpaid, overworked officers will be able to maintain real discipline...
...eventual set-up would be one where each House had groups of twenty or thirty, which would be representative of the various categories of individuals in Harvard College. Each group in a House as a unit could contribute what its type had to offer to the University, and thus maintain the cross-section with its desirable features...
...political organization which hopes for support from the majority of Harvard students must fight to maintain a spirit of non-partisanship against all comers. The inevitable attempt at a radical coup d'etat should be ground under foot at its first budding, and the obvious failure of political bodies here in past years has been their inability to show this resistance...