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...wrong in thinking that simple honesty, public devotion, feeling, and "rhetoric" cannot solve our problems even without exact knowledge of technicalities of law, economics, and finance...
...York, Oct. 22--There wasn't anything wrong with English wit when the British Sloop Scarborough arrived today. Her commander, O. W. Cornwallis, descended from the Lord Cornwallis described himself as belonging to the family "which founded the United States of America...
...stuffed shirts and philosophical pranksters such men are worth any dozen efficiency experts. . . ." After he has learned the million-and-one do's and don't's of technique, and "not to ask the city editor how to get to Canarsie." and that "Women, wampum and wrong-doing are always news," the reporter may, after several years, earn nearly $50 a week. A small group who have "legs, wind, imagination, knowledge, a sleepless curiosity, and can write in the blunt Saxon tongue" will climb to the top. City Editor Walker pays a rare tribute...
...wrong conception of political freedom which is often identified with democracy to think that every individual has the right to any kind of schooling. Schools are institutions not only of and for individuals but of and for greater groups of people, of the community and of the state. And even private schools in many respects are dependent upon, and therefore also bound to the cooperation of many political and cultural factors within the frame of the whole nation...
...recapitalization plans brought Steelman Girdler smack up against the Securities Act, and last week he paid his respect to that and other aspects of the New Deal. "The New Deal may not be all right, but certainly it is not all wrong," he remarked diplomatically. But: "Today no business is willing to spend a dollar except for immediate requirements. Those of us in the steel business cannot blame our customers, for we feel the same way ourselves." His reasons: 1) fear for the profit system, 2) the Securities Act, 3) labor unrest, and 4) "I want to know what...