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...front-row black-leather seat in the House last week, chin cupped in hand, listening to a pale, grave, calm President (see p. 11), possible attacks on that aggressive defense went through his mind. By week's end one thing was clear about the isolationist strategy: the old bogey of the House of Morgan was to be hung like an albatross around Franklin Roosevelt's neck...
Last year horrified reports cropped up that liquid oxygen was being used to fill bombs of dreadful killing power. An article in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review pooh-poohed this bogey, on the ground that liquid oxygen explosives are so sensitive that they cannot safely be transported from place to place, and that they deteriorate rapidly, losing their explosive power in an hour...
...extent that college undergraduates can be consider representative of the entire country, the recent Student Opinion Surveys indicate that the American political scene of the future will be altered. These polls imply that at least two of the foremost standard political arguments of the nation--the Communist bogey and isolation--will not be very effective ammunition for the politician of tomorrow...
Dean Hanford has "awaited with interest" the report of the Student Council on the first-ranking bogey-man of University Hall, undergraduate housing. And, with a more vital and personal interest, so have the homeless three hundred, who now lurk in the crepuscular gloom of Little or Dudley and subsist on the weird stews of Harvard Square chefs. The Council has spoken, but like the oracles of the ancient Greeks, it has nothing...
Pointing out that Russian had no reason for picking a fight, Marshall cited Japan's recent vigorous expansion program and imperialistic ambitions, as well as the desire for natural resources and the fear of Communism, perennial Nipponese bogey, as reasons why the island empire might attack the great Bear on its North...