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...army of industrialists, railmen, motormen, bankers, manufacturers, public utilitarians and labor leaders marched to the White House where they pledged "business-as-usual." More public works were planned to absorb unemployment. Private companies were urged to go in heavily for new construction. In come taxes were cut 1 % to spur economic recovery...
...spur the workers, to make them ashamed of their clumsiness, the Government has conferred upon Stalingrad in mocking poster form "The Order of the Camel for Lazy Work & Breakage.'' Anyone can see that the camel (see cut) is laughing, hee-hawing, mocking clumsy workers...
...Vagabond there is nothing worse than the present day tendency to link up things materialistic with endeavors intellectual. He abhors the monetary incentives that spur on novelists and biographers. Likewise he detests the prostitution of literary art by men who write with their tongue in their cheek for the sake of reaping rewards in lucre and not in reputation. His abhorrence of all that is cheap and tainted is great; he is far distant from political graft...
Nevertheless this explanation of bibulousness does not validate the sad state. Oxford has no divisionals, no prohibition to spur it on; they exidently just drink on general principles, and now and then on each other it is hoped. "The Isis" goes into great detail as to the kind of drinkers that oxist at the University. There are those who drink only on Saturday night, and there are those who indulge only after long and arduous physical discipline. This last category the magazine admits quite frankly are "horrid...
...resulted in the official and actual resumption of athletic relations should have further results than merely giving pleasure to those who have missed the customary Princeton-Harvard contests. It should impress the athletic authorities with a feeling which is so prevalent among the undergraduate bodies at both colleges and spur them on to making the resumption complete by the return of the Harvard-Princeton football games...