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...March Progressive are refuted by Professor "E. Lin Berchan," J. D. Black, and Wassily Leontief; Professor A. H. Hansen bestrides the fence; and Mr. Spencer Pollard, supporting the truth of the charges, hands "Mr. Bunde" a round of ammunition gratis in the noble sentences: "My main criticism is the tacit assumption of the article that the chief interest of the Economics Department is in teaching students. We do pay a little attention to students, as little as possible generally, and if we pay more than that, the University soon ceases to pay us anything except the attention necessary...
Implicit in the President's fiscal philosophy of 1939 is therefore a tacit acknowledgment of an idea that political realists long have harbored: expenditures cannot be reduced for reasons both political and social; the U. S. economic system is going to support a larger and larger debt; the U. S. budget is not likely to be balanced by the New Deal or by a successor administration for a long time to come. Corollary of this (not of course believed by the President) is that the U. S. debt will never be paid off, and that until some drastic event...
...Soviet Union; 6) put into effect a nationwide reduction in bread prices; 7) raised hours of employment of Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval to the appointment of a Communist as Mayor of Valparaiso, a Socialist as Mayor of Vina...
...campus find it expedient to form a political organization, we may rest assured that the ivory tower no longer stands. The mere existence of such an organization, coupled with the world wide spread of fascism, has shown Harvard students that traditional political inactivity no longer signifies a tacit faith in ever-widening American democracy. Democracy today is threatened by dynamic and fast-working enemies, and democracy can only be preserved by political action on the part of its adherents. Thus the great mass of unaffiliated Harvard students are registering a vote of indifference to the outcome of a struggle which...
When Franklin Roosevelt last summer attempted a Purge within his own party, it was a tacit declaration that for worthy adversaries he had to look to recalcitrant members of his own party. Wishfully foreseeing the dissolution of the G.O.P., he frankly invited the U. S. electorate to form two new parties which he named Liberal and Conservative. In his Liberal party he wanted Labor and the Farmers as well as underprivileged Forgotten Men. Last week's election was the first national test of this projected grand sashay...