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...naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views on U.S. intervention: the confused statements and blank, well-meaning faces have a shock value that is startling...
...controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government grants to states and communities, both for war and postwar industries, housing developments, down...
Musical reputations, and why, have been a source of innocent fascination to Stanford University's violin-playing Psychologist Paul Randolph Farnsworth. Last week he released the results of a poll he had taken of two very different groups of U.S. citizens: 1) 500 Stanford students, 2) learned members of the American Musicological Society. The question: "Who, named in order, are the greatest composers in the history of music?" The answers showed striking agreement as to the first four names-and then chaos...
...Reciprocal Trade Agreements will probably be renewed by the Senate, but far-reaching amendments are adjudged inevitable. Moreover, a recent Associated Press poll showed 32 Senators to be opposed to U. S. participation in any international peace-enforcement organization at this time, only 24 definitely committing themselves in favor of the proposal. The Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution, substantially the same as the above measure, faces an additional obstacle in the formidable machinations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which includes Champ Clark, Hiram Johnson, Capper, LaFollette, Vandenberg, Nye and Shipstead on its roster...
Captain-elect Dick Mechem and goalie Goodie Harding of the Crimson sextet were the only non-Dartmouth men selected for the all-Pentagonal League hockey team, announced yesterday by the Associated Press after a poll of the league's coaches...