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...crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even if the colored student were tolerated by the whites, his plight would be made unbearable by social barriers erected around him. His theoretical right to learn, like his theoretical right to vote, avail him nothing...
...Alas, I am too far removed from America this year to avail myself of the unequalled educational information and entertainment afforded by this program. To the many penalties attached to living in the Far East, I add the unavailability of the "March of TIME...
President Wintergreen (William Gaxton) is on the verge of being defeated for reelection. To no avail do his constituents parade with posters proclaiming: HE KEPT US OUT OF WORK, WINTERGREEN WANTS WINTERGREEN, MRS. WINTERGREEN WANTS WINTERGREEN, WINTERGREEN WANTS MRS. WINTERGREEN. His opponent's adherents advertise: JOHN P. TWEEDLEDEE IS A MOOSE, TWEEDLEDEE IS AN ELK, TWEEDLEDEE IS A HORSE'S NECK...
Nevertheless, they flooded Mr. Herd with offers for the world's biggest line of liquors -to no avail. Suddenly Mr. Herd and his shadow turned up in Manhattan. Hopes soared. But Mr. Herd and Thomas Wilkinson saw no one except their own representatives, sailed for home the same night...
...chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink and be destroyed, as its mate had been. Last week the buck's predicament, by now a national news story, brought Superintendent Gardiner Bump of New York's Conservation Department to the scene. But before...