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...article appearing in today's Crimson, Mr. Arthur Hays Sulzberger has called attention to the kinship that exists between academic freedom and freedom of the press. The New York journalist and publisher of the "Times" thus turns the spotlight on the most dangerous threat to the American ideal of free thought. For awhile the publishing world is led by men who believe in free investigation and research, the press plays the part of a helpful guide, forming a public opinion that is devoid of prejudice and mass hatred and tolerant of things it cannot fully understand. But today a militant...
...tradition Labor Day marks the end of the summer doldrums for Industry, the beginning of the autumn upswing and better business. The summer of 1936 was not so commercially spectacular as the summer of 1933, when Industry was racing the approaching Blue Eagle and the threat of inflation, and the imminence of Repeal was intoxicating the stockmarket (TIME, July 21, 1933). Nevertheless, this week as Labor Day came & went, most U. S. businessmen concluded that the summer of 1936 had been good for trade, that autumn should, by experience, be even better. Indices of a smiling summer...
After a ride through packed streets to his Buffalo hotel, the Republican candidate attended a Party luncheon, spent the afternoon receiving political callers and a People's Mandate Peace Committee whom he told: "I recognize that war is the greatest threat to Freedom and Democracy." For dinner and the night he went to the home of Publisher Edward H. Butler of the Buffalo Evening News. Next morning he attested his eligibility for high place by revealing that he had sat up until 2 a. m. reading a detective story, The House on the Roof by Mignon Eberhart...
...Florence Miller of a Canadian vaudeville troupe known as The Tony Wine Com-pany which has been playing Catalonia, got out of Barcelona after all members of the company had been "conscripted" by the radical militia and put to work giving five shows a day for militiamen with the threat that anyone who refused to dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered a "Fascist" and shot. Said Miss Miller: "Everyone, ham actors and $500-a-week stars, were paid exactly $1 each per day, plus a meal ticket. We could eat on our tickets at the Ritz Hotel. Barcelona...
...Nile water. Nile soil. Only in Brazil and part of the Argentine are there real possibilities of increasing cotton production to the point where the Cotton Belt could be dropped from the list of world cotton exporters. But those areas lack the South's cheap labor. The threat from the Rust cotton picker (TIME, March 23) or improved versions of that machine, is less to employment in the South than in South America where it would overcome the lack of labor...