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...Professor then explained his viewpoint by pointing out how President Roosevelt has blasted all hopes of the World Economic Conference last June, and had made negotiations concerning trade impossible by announcing a change in our monetary policies. He asserted that America, in going off the gold standard, had used every effort to depreciate the dollar in order to bring about a recovery in trade, "an action never before intentionally attempted by a nation...
...Thomas' last appearance at Harvard was in 1932 when he spoke here as part of his campaign for the Presidency. He is now engaged on a speaking tour of the country. The speech on Thursday will be given from the viewpoint of an impartial observer of the workings of the recovery administration. His previous speeches here were concerned with the Socialist side of the question involved. Thursday's speech will be open to members of the student body and Faculty of the University...
...when a war flames up almost overnight somewhere along the Siberian-Mongolian border, setting afire some 750,000 sq. mi. of territory, the man of the minute, from the Russian viewpoint, will be handsome Soviet Army, Navy & Air "Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. As Commissar of the Red Navy, red-faced "Klim'' Voroshilov commands a ludicrous force of four battleships, six cruisers, eight modern submarines and some 50 other small boats, mostly anti quated. So superior is Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian...
...executive secretary becomes most profound, "The habit of regarding pictures emotionally must be overcome," he says, "and we must learn to take hold of our task very dispassionately. It is time to stop talking about the morals of the movies,' for morals change and movies change, and the moral viewpoint of yesterday is not the moral viewpoint of today." In addition to all this research one of Mr. Wilton's colleagues has, after long and arduous labors, discovered that the mental age of movie audiences has increased from fourteen to twenty...
...school teacher with a school teacher's viewpoint toward reading and study, I should like to make a suggestion for TIME'S improvement which I think would benefit many readers...