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...Houses, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1933. Across his frieze of expedient contemporary Congressmen, Mr. Anderson wrote a dramatic motto to the effect that a people is worthy of the government it gets. He carries the theme a step farther in Valley Forge, asserting that, right or wrong, the government a people gets is the one it wants and should have. Neither his Washington nor his Continentals have many illusions about the republic they are about to set up, but Mr. Anderson does his best to dignify the perverse, wilful, homespun idealism which makes them fight for that...
...sickness in St. Louis (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933, et ante). Last week he was working on the serology of the strangest of the St. Louis sleeping sickness cases when, too ill to continue, he went to the Naval Hospital in Washington. Neither he nor his colleagues know what is wrong. Most striking symptom was a rash down both his sides; most terrifying, the irrationality into which he occasionally lapsed. In his rational periods he feared that his condition might be the irremediable after effect of sleeping sickness picked up in St. Louis...
...majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them. Yet they look back on Harvard to remember in distortion a different organization and a different set of values; they also do not realize that reflection differs from actual experience...
...reader Guy P. Rego is right as to the guilt of the asinine system and the judges thereof, who would prolong a wrong merely because it had started...
Mexicans agree that Calles is their Mussolini. They blame him for everything that has gone wrong in the last decade. But they know he has given them much peace and talked enough Revolution to kill the goose of entrenched Capital-outside the Calles circle. For better or worse Mexico has now slammed the door against "imperialist exploitation." Three big foreign banks have cleared out of Mexico this year. The upping of silver prices has eased matters by producing a local boom...