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These two gentlemen are likely to receive much more sympathetic treatment from the outspoken Texan. Unorthodox themselves, they may even find a kindred spirit in their unorthodox apologist. Come, you vagabonds, come to study the Cowboy Professor. You are guaranteed to hear shrewd perception of literary values which the spontaneous language delightfully accentuates...
When Louisiana jumped its sulphur tax to $2, the sulphur companies threatened to move out of the State. If the Texas Legislature passes the $2 tax recommended by the tax committee, as most observers think it will, the sulphur companies will have nowhere to go. As Texan Graves drawled last week: "Only God can make sulphur and he is making it mighty slow...
Most envied airman fighting with the Reds in Spain was Texan Major Frederic A. Lord. He had been given last week a ship with the very latest Hispano-Suiza "moteur canon," swankest instrument of Death. This engine has a hollow propeller shaft and through it fires an oversize machine gun or undersized field piece discharging explosive, tracer, incendiary or armor-piercing shells...
Today a wave of reaction challenges the freedom of American Universities. Censorship was clamped upon the "Daily Texan" because of anti-big business editorial policy. Senator MacNaboe has sallied forth to purge Cornell of un-American activities. Dorgan has shielded the youth of Massachusetts from propaganda inspired by Moscow Gold. And now the LaFollette machine resentful of the political prestige of President Frank and in ill-defined personal disagreement with his policies, is hacking at a man whose eminence and liberalism have placed him among the foremost leaders of American education...
Last July the Board of Regents of this university ordered that the liberty of the Daily Texan, the student daily newspaper, to print what it chose should be virtually annihilated. Their dictatorial decree, enforced by an Editorial Advisory Committee, excluded from the news and editorial columns all "libelous material, improper personal attacks, reckless accusations, opinions not based on fact, inaccurate statements, articles on national, state and local political questions, indecencies, material detrimental to the good conduct of the student body, and material prejudicial to the best interest of the University; and any material in conflict with good taste or wise...