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Europe. "We must cooperate . . . for organized world recovery. ... In a world disarmament conference we should reduce our own tax burdens. . . . Successful results from a world economic conference would bring courage and stability which will reflect into every home in our land...
Criticism there will be, especially from those who experience an extreme partiality to Widener's reading room. But the average man will reflect and feel satisfied that, perhaps a trifle tardily, the University has satisfied all his financial complaints. He will judge the reduction in room rents as the culmination of a period of adjustment in which food prices have been cut, needy men have been given employment, and inter-House eating has been authorized. In all his term there is perhaps nothing more characteristic of President Lowell than the intelligent liberality of the past few months...
...that which has been added to the stage show, not taken away. The result is a sincere impressive play, full, but not blown up with sentiment and passion, and interrupted constantly by manifestations of the mechanical ingenuity of the producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect no glory on them to let Joan Crawford dominate a scene prepared by some British author-- they must do something to show that Hollywood's money is speaking. So they harp on the title of the show, "Rain", and employ it in the manner of a theme song. To think...
...vote in 1928, appointed John Johnston Parker, a North Carolina Republican, to the Supreme Court only to have the Senate reject him (TIME, May 19, 1930 et ante). No less sainted a Republican than the late great Theodore Roosevelt (fifth cousin) believed that the Supreme Court should reflect the political conviction of the President...
Both types promote a sense of values which can be overemphasized. This is the sense of values which gives special importance to immediate material considerations such as position and wealth, instead of to less obvious things such as intellectual and artistic ability, cultivation, and character. Influence and affluence often reflect brains and personality, but the latter qualities too frequently express themselves in other ways for which there is little or no recognition...