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...Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late Felix E. Dzerzhinsky (TIME, Aug. 2) as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council. The settled policy of these men is to transform the "pure" Communist state, as conceived by Lenin, into a regime in which modified capitalism is recognized but kept subservient to the state. Secretary General Stalin and his henchmen are thus "Communist heretics." Their political creed is the "NEP" ("New Economic Policy"). Daily Life. The Communist regime has now attained...
...Premier's task to transform such grodging admissions that the Pacts must be ratified into enthusiasm for the task. Mounting the tribune, M. Briand tuned his seductive voice by a preliminary cough...
...XXVIII Eucharistic Congress comes to Chicago for a pentad of ecstasy the third week of June. Hundreds of thousands, at least a million, pilgrims will come. Lake boats and hotels and Pullman cars fitted with altars will transform themselves into ephemeral churches. Every Catholic family in the city has prepared itself to care for guests. So far as possible, foreigners (for thousands will come from abroad) will be housed with co-nationalists. The clergy will bunk in rectories?and in hotels. Honest innkeepers and food-purveyors have promised to maintain their regular charges...
...knowledge. But the same knowledge brought conviction that the really organic, fundamental things that make Oxford what it is are the product of eight centuries of slow ripening, and can be produced in no other way. I returned to Harvard believing that it would be impossible as undesirable to transform our University into a trans-Atlantic Oxford; and this feeling has deepened ever since...
...There where the watermelon and the strawberry transform the midnight dew into luscious red juice; there where the springs gush forth that transparent and God-given fluid sparkling with purity and virtue, the only proper drink for an American citizen; but if there be those of a grosser appetite who want to violate the constitution of America, there is Bimini, only an hour or two away...