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...Economics Department includes some of the most brilliant, sound, and thorough economists in the country. Yet while their field is being disgraced in the public eye by the ungrounded, unsubstantial, pseudo-economics which characterizes the Roosevelt administration, the Harvard professors are content to remain sheltered in their scholastic asylum, and assume a completely detached...
...strikebreakers ran a few street cars, the radio, telegraph and the main Havana postoffice, the docks, power plants, water works and tax collection offices. That was all. Most Government departments, which President Mendieta had filled with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked out, leaving inmates to themselves. Crowed bantam Generalissimo Batista: "This strike is a disgrace to the civilization of Cuba." He sent out his soldiers to scour Havana, sent Army planes swooping over the roof tops...
...makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life. But the tempo rapidly gets too fast for him; the surrealist dream in which he finds himself becomes a nightmare. Too late he is taken to the refuge of an asylum. The attic has given up its secret...
...however, was no match for this pictorial violence. One article printed in groping English described a government that could ban the word "God" from the textbooks as "such ossy, ossy, phally, prehistoric boneheads. ... I verely say to all that such men as these should be locked in the insane asylum." Another addressed itself to U. S. bankers, college presidents. Senators, Governors and Mayors who have in times past visited Mexico City, been received by Governor Saenz, fêted and presented with a souvenir sombrero made with pure silver. "If any of you," Frente á Frente wound up, "have been...
...returning from the Christmas recess student car owners will find that the University has at last offered them asylum from the tag-wielding minions of Timothy F. Leahy, proud chief of the City of Cambridge Police Forces. The last obstacle to this University project has now disappeared...