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...communication appeared in the Weekly and in newspapers throughout the land, Professor Henderson spoke to the Chicago meeting in much the same vein. Vast building programs, said he, result in underpaid professors. At one university, "by 1945 I suppose it will be necessary to stop paying professors' salaries altogether, so that the wages of the president, the janitors, window washers and scrubbers can be met." Professor Henderson's figures as to the proportion of university income paid to professors; at Johns Hopkins, 65 per cent; University of Chicago, 52 per cent; Princeton, 42 per cent ("pretty fair"); at Yale...
...dirty past, took no pains to paint a pretty picture. With a World's Fair in the offing, with a concerted effort on the part of its more worthy citizenry to put raw beefsteak on Chicago's black eye, Author Smith has now changed his vein. In Chicago: A Portrait Mr. Smith, writing alone, turns to glorification...
...boarded a New York Central office car. clutching a fat envelope. ''This is something that can't be lost." he gravely explained. "It's Mooney's record, and I always stand by the record. Let's hope that justice is waiting." In lighter vein he deplored missing the Kid Chocolate-Tony Canzoneri fight, an inconvenience which he palliated by going to the Southern California-Notre Dame football game at South Bend, Ind. (see p. 23). His brief for Prisoner Mooney, he prepared aboard the Overland Limited between Chicago and San Francisco...
...Manchuria had been crushed last week. Only at Chinchow, far to the south of Manchuria and near China proper, was there any large group of Chinese soldiers who might do battle. To hearten them Chinese President Chiang Kaishek at Nanking-1,000 miles south announced in the flamboyant vein of General Ma that he would personally rush north "to direct the offensive and avenge China's honor." But President Chiang did not stir out of Nanking last week...
...said the advanced Capitalist State would be the first to make a Communist revolution. The English should be ashamed of themselves not to be the first. . . . When you [the Soviets] have finished your job and succeeded there will be a hurry to follow your example." He continued in this vein later, in a radio broadcast: "If Lenin's experiment fails, present civilization fails. . . . If the other nations follow Lenin's method, we will not have collapse and failure. If the future is with Lenin, then we can smile...