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Many a modern psychiatrist believes that trying to make a left-handed child write with his right is a crime only less heinous than making him eat spinach. Their theory: switching hands upsets a child emotionally, often causes stuttering. Last week a graduate student at Syracuse University threw doubt on this theory. Prompted by Professor Harry J. Heltman, chairman of Syracuse's School of Speech, Graduate Student Elizabeth Daniels had examined 1,594 Syracuse freshmen, learned that...
...teachers are quick to resent interference with their political rights, like to play politics, sometimes run for elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...
...editor-owner of The Nation, lifetime liberal, Oswald Garrison Villard appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to argue that third terms are a bad thing and all Presidents are greedy for them. His prime example: "Despite President Coolidge's 'I do not choose to run,' he threw himself on his bed in an agony of disappointment and was unapproachable for two days after the news reached him that Mr. Hoover had been nominated...
Last week, day before Japan threw a scare at the U. S. by signing a pact with Berlin, President Roosevelt struck a blow at Japan. He prohibited the export after Oct. 15 of all U. S. steel scrap, except to Great Britain (now U. S. scrap customer No. 1) and countries of the Western Hemisphere (which means Canada). But Japan depends on the U. S. for practically all of her scrap, is U. S. scrap customer No. 2 at present. The embargo, as the Japs knew, was aimed at them...
...Collins machine had taken an anti-New-Deal, anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...