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...right of sitting on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street," said that if capital flees from the country "it will be the panic mongers who are responsible, not the Labor Party." Mr. MacDonald then cataloged the aims of the Labor Party: To establish European peace on "an understanding of humane" men and women, "who have no cause for war, no cause for enmity"; to use the League of Nations "without reserve as the main instrument of securing international justice"; to recognize Russia and so end "the pompous folly of standing aloof from the Russian Government"; to encourage trade "from...
...think about her existence. . . . From time to time I sent her some odd trifle or curio that I hoped might please her; at first she returned them, faintly reproving, but with so calm a courtesy that I could see she did not resent my attentions. ... I could never understand how she got the reputation of being ill-natured or cold-hearted (there were some, in the old days, who used to say so), for surely in my experience she was never that. . . . And then?can I forget the day when I learned that she, too, in her secret...
...help Europe's future leaders to help themselves is the stated purpose of the Student Friendship Fund as I understand it," said Edward A. Filene of William Filene and Sons yesterday, when he was asked to make a statement about the drive for $5000 which is now being carried on in all departments of the University...
...right of each individual to make his own bargain--many employers have tried and some have succeeded in putting through just such an open shop. Probably Mr. Bullard means some compromise between the two. Such compromises do exist but they exist either because the employers and employees understand each others' motives or because the unions in those industries are not strong enough to enforce any other condition. Shop committees are unsatisfactory in that they rarely produce capable leaders and cannot make agreements which will extend over a wide field. And Mr. Bullard's arguments for the buttress which public opinion...
...variation and the mechanism of the germ-cell he knew little. But whether or not species originate as Darwin thought they did, this "grandest generalization of the 19th century"?the continuous relation of all species to pre-existent life ?is an incontrovertible fact. Many laymen do not understand the scientific spirit which calls for constant revision of accepted theory in the light of new facts, but the discarding of unverified hypotheses does not argue lack of confidence in the methods of science...