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Though approval and enaction of a quota system did not seem immediately probable last week, U. S. motormakers, anxious to offset declining sales at home by expanding sales abroad, were worried by possible spreading of the tariff wall against cars and parts. And business conditions in Europe were another source of anxiety. Bearish items of the week included the dismissal of the entire production staff (600 men) from the Ford plant in Spain...
...Catholics who belong to the Apostleship of Prayer what they should pray for. The prayer for July: "Protection against dangerous broadcasting." Rev. James M. Gillis, editor of The Catholic World, explained last week: "We must send out over the air polite, mannerly explanations of Catholic doctrine, hoping thus to offset the attacks of the enemy. . . . The anti-Christians, who rushed pell-mell into radio and made it a devil's instrument will presently get tired of it, after wearing down the endurance of their listeners, but the church will continue when they quit...
...going into the air-we felt certain the end of the War was near. The only report I ever read on that flight was the one referred to in the London Daily Mail, about a half-dozen lines regarding the flight of 310 planes over the enemy lines to offset a counterattack and drop food supplies -as near as I recall it. Reports among the troops were to the effect that they had gone to rescue the "Lost Battalion" and most general and probably the most correct was the report that they delivered some supplies where they were badly needed...
...that the college is not fulfilling its true function unless it at least offers the opportunity to its alumni of coming back to the campus at stated times to drink again from the fountain of learning and of youth, and to receive a little intellectual stimulation with which to offset some of the stress of our modern world. As President William Mather Lewis has said, the "camel theory" of education, whereby colleges expect their students to drink deeply in their undergraduate days, and then not to need refreshment again the rest of their lives, is completely fallacious. The college must...
Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant, denounced the measure. Shipping men lamented the prospect of reduced foreign trade in their bottoms, spoke of upping ocean freight rates to offset their loss. Theodore Gary of Kansas City, whom Senator Moses appointed as Republican Senatorial campaign cash collector, declared the bill was "highly detrimental" and that U. S. industries would lose more than they would gain from...