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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than anyone has to date, and at least as nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes out his courage as he takes bullets from the gun of an enraged invader of the offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

...Poland, and the Balkans, flints to the steel that sparks international discord into war. Liberty, equality, fraternity, are as crisp and dead as the documents which attest to their existence. Democracy was only a step on the road to efficient dictatorship, as the Swastika aptly shows. Scientific organization cannot admit of rugged individualism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHE SARA SARA | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...willing to be fair, I think you will admit that in a short time the examinations will be looked forward to with great eagerness--men will compete hotly for the honor of representing their departments, and what is now regarded with a bit of mal de mer, will be looked on, to use Dwight Fiske's immortal word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Can You Spare A Dime" | 2/24/1934 | See Source »

...could not suggest a fifth year in the high schools to prepare the college prospect. Nor would the student look with relish on the prospect of an extra year, an added mile-stone on the road to a degree. No faculty would admit of its practicality without an increase of its members or its salaries. And when America is spending $386,000,000 less this year on secondary education than it did in 1930, when 175,000 school children lack primary training in the three R's because their communities lack cash, such a course is patently impractical. The only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEMENTALS | 2/20/1934 | See Source »

...jeopardize its economic arrangements with foreign countries by "meddling" in their internal affairs; the other is the Bolshevik scorn of the Viennese Social Democrats, antipathy which long outdates the present series of that party's collapses. Bound by the toils of the Marxian dialectic, the Stalinites could not consistently admit the presence in Austria of a revolutionary movement. It did not bear the approved brand, it preserved a united from of reds and pinks (which was no slight triumph of leadership), and it took no orders from the Kremlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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