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...problems of the Actopels, an ordinary middle-class family, were always true to life and generally funny. Pa, bent with thirty years of toil, has just been made head bookkeeper at the plant --the heart and soul of Cranetown. Horace, the eldest son, has married and is doing well in the export department, while studying psychology by mail. Dolores, his wife and her mother-in-law's echo, is learning to cook. His brother Gordon is on the eve of realizing his ambition: a Phi Beta Kappa Key at the Mid-State University and a job in the teller...
Indeed, it is rather grotesque that he should have any part in the business ?he, Cabot Lodge of the foremost Massachusetts elite, a scholar, a gentleman of refinement, to concern himself with the sansculottes of Russia, to mix in a proletarian problem. Aside from his other important duties, the Subcommittee was obviously no place...
...Louis Barthou, President of the Reparations Commission, welcomed the committee, promised French cooperation in its work, for on its success, he declared, "depends the pacific equilibrium of the entire world." "We do not expect from you," he continued, "the unlocked for miracle of the reparation problem, but we hope with sincere confidence that your competency, experience and authority will concentrate to hasten the result toward which we are bending all our efforts...
...Ireland"; to deal with unemployment by creating a Labor Department "staffed by men and women of labor experience; experience, aye, and knowledge, the spirit, insight and capacity to put themselves in the shoes of the unemployed and of the children-for the first time an administrative will consider the problem of unemployment from a human point of view"; to break any trusts which he found increasing the cost of building material and so hampering a solution of the housing problem. He could not understand, he said, "how people could go to bed and pray to a common Father with...
...somewhat divergent views upon the problem of enrollment limitation have been placed before the University. To many who have discussed the problem there has occurred a third possible solution which, while a policy is yet being formulated, might well be considered. It is briefly, intending to set that "absolute standard" which is essential, to admit only those who pass the New Plan comprehensive examinations in June. In regard to those who fail to pass a June examination or those who come in under the one seventh provision, the conclusions of the CRIMSON seem soundest...