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Kirkland, under the coaching of Harvard D, White '32, has made outstanding progress and even at this early date looms as a potential threat to Winthrop's gridiron supremacy, George T. Cushman '37, a triple threat back, sizes up as the outstanding member of this squad...
...Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) President James Lukens McConaughy took a less friendly view of Publisher Hearst. Declared he: "Leaders like Governor Curley [of Massachusetts] and publicists like Mr. Hearst are today the greatest menaces to freedom in the academic world. . . . The biggest threat to such freedom is bigotry, unfairly endeavoring to impose our own views on others and denying", to those who differ from us, honesty and sincerity...
...exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles as a novelist, in literary circles as a politician, whose promise or threat is always greater than his accomplishment...
...time prosperous publicity agent, a ruined broker, a "wobbly," a Texas farmer pool their potential resources and, after a meeting, get enough supplies on credit to start work. A one time Socialist and Alaska miner named Sig Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals. The EPIC campaign shakes it and the contradictory government...
...Angell: "I was told when leaving the deluge this morning that this was President Conant's method of soaking the rich. So long as they are Harvard's rich, I don't care. But the endowed institutions of the U. S. cannot long survive under the threat of unjust taxation...