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...original Tammany Hall. "The picture of a Tammany victory as a beneficent act of God, with an Aaron Burr as the Divine instrument, is somewhat startling to us today. But it was accepted with delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts an elusive hare when he points out that banksters are no new phenomenon. In 1819 the combined "borrowings...
...Senate at Washington doesn't seem eager to do anything about the political situation in Louisiana. Now is the time for all good men to applaud the sentiment which animates this pronunciamento. At the same time it may be regretted that the letter was not phrased with that strict regard for dignity and sobriety in expression which is to be expected from young gentlemen who attend classes in English at Harvard. It says, for instance...
...Hindenburg would accede to Queen Wilhelmina's request. Overnight came a Nazi smack in the face to Holland. Van der Lubbe's head had been cut off, the German Government announced, without prior notice of any sort to either Queen Wilhelmina or the German public. Obeying strict orders from Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, German newspapers barely mentioned the Dutchman's execution, stating that "It was the purpose of the German Government to confront the public with an ac complished fact without long preliminary palavers as a token of justice, assurance, determination...
...also conscious that the level of student expenses is a problem of the first order. Every friend of the College will earnestly hope that he will attack this problem with courage; that he will not be too greatly swayed by persons whose official position narrows their vision to the strict finances of the University budget; and that he will let it be known once and for all that the qualifications for attendance at Harvard College are intellectual and not financial...
Regarding your new heading of "Rolphing" adopted at the behest of a horrified old gentleman from the effete East (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.) it strikes me that this is a departure from TIME's policy of strict neutrality on controversial questions...