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...courtroom, while Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey questioned them on the details of their occupation (TIME, May 25). No old-fashioned vice trial was this. The prosecutor had been appointed at the request of New York's Governor Lehman, not to wipe out an ancient profession but to abolish rackets. Lucania and his prosperous executives had terrorized a large section of the city's dealers in flesh, had put prostitution on a chain-store basis...
...decrease in number of the groups continued. Today the groups are nations. But the primitive feeling of simple hostility to the stranger survives. If we understand this, and believe that nations are not the largest possible social units, we are "face to face with those forces that will ultimately abolish warfare...
...become quite obvious that in the majority of cases tutorial work is becoming stagmant. Yet, at the same time, students are compelled to take only three courses and pay the $100 course fee for this fruitless service. Doubtless it would be manifestly unfair to abolish the system while there are still some men who do derive benefits from tutorial and desire its continuance. But since there are so many concentrators who would prefer to take a fourth course in place of tutorial, students should at least be allowed to choose whichever plan they prefer. This reform, the only one necessary...
Only one dissenting voice was heard yesterday morning as 500 anti-war strikers resolved in favor of the Nye-Kvale bill to abolish compulsory R.O.T.C. in Government controlled colleges...
...Washington last week to testify against the so-called Wheeler Anti-Basing Point Bill were the presidents of the two biggest steel companies in the U. S. Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler proposed to abolish by law the common industrial practice of quoting prices which include freight charges from a "basing" city regardless of whether the commodity is actually shipped the specified distance (TIME, March 23). U. S. Steel's William A. Irvin and Bethlehem's Eugene Grace spoke for the industry most bitterly opposed to any change in this system...