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Further than that, the College can do nothing. To send spies to the reviews in question would be impractical and inexpensive; to pounce upon suspects on reading their reports would risk all kinds of injustice and embarassment. But only a bigoted self-cynic could maintain that such Ogpustic activity was necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION | 12/17/1935 | See Source »

...racketeers. That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to save innocent victims from wildcat banking, from watered stocks and from all other kinds of 'confidence games.' That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of Government to obtain and to maintain fair reward for labor, whether it be the labor of the farmer or the factory worker or the labor of the white collar man. That is Justice. The nation applauds efforts, through, the agencies of Government, to give a greater social security to the aged and to the unemployed, to improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Greatest Curse | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...render a far more valuable service by incorporating within her own curriculum a system of education along the lines of that now in effect in Columbia. There, about 10,000 students, not part of the undergraduate body, are educated each year. With care and patience Harvard could develop and maintain a system of this kind which would be far more valuable than lending out instructors to a separate institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FOR ADULTS | 12/14/1935 | See Source »

...During the last fifty years there has been a sharp upward curve in the registering of employees under the Civil Service, with relatively minor slumps during depressions. True, the real plums are still reserved for politicians, but many can be won. And, surprisingly, the English people have managed to maintain the party system, even with a great Civil Service system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLAZING THE PATH | 12/11/1935 | See Source »

...deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove-gas, Generalissimo Chiang meanwhile wired from Nanking asking goat-bearded General Sung Cheh-yuan, who is supposed to be the real ruler of Hopei and Chahar Provinces, to maintain some kind of Nanking authority in North China by accepting the title of "Pacification Commissioner." This honor General Sung, who looks and knows how to act the part of a traditional hoary Chinese War Lord with delicacy and finesse, declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bigger Than Benito's | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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