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Cried Kentucky's 58-year-old Senator Alben Barkley: "That does not annoy me in the slightest. . . . Mr. Walker is by no means a doddering...
...American Communists have not caught on to this fact; they lack originality and realism. If you take pepper, they sneeze. If you have indigestion, they belch. They annoy our trade unions more than they annoy our employers...
...rips into the Times report with the accusation that the exam was presented to the students in such a way as to arouse suspicion as to the motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. "The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers." the Crimson pointed out. "For example, Portland, Oregon was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin Roosevelt was listed among the Presidents who have been assassinated...
...Times' questionnaire was apparently presented to the students in such a way as to arouse suspicion as to the motivation behind it and to make them wonder how the results would be used. The circumstances were also apparently such as to annoy the students and to invite ironical and flippant answers (e.g., Portland, Oregon, was frequently said to be located on the Mississippi River or on the Atlantic seaboard, and Franklin D. Roosevelt was listed among the presidents who have been assassinated...
Professor Byrne, 59, hopes his course will annoy pedagogical isolationists who have agitated for compulsory college courses in U.S. history ever since the New York Times found last spring that U.S. history study was not required in 82% of U.S. colleges. Let U.S. colleges, says he, stop teaching "American history in a vacuum." He describes his new course as "an exercise in historical imagination...