Word: bugaboos
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...sake." The story is trite, similar to any cinema of college life, and typical of the kind of stuff that appears in the popular fiction magazines. Even the indictment of athletics is outworn in this day when a change for the better has taken place and the football overemphasis bugaboo has been pretty well dispelled...
...tendency to accept the English ideal of playing the game for the game's sake: that it is better to lose a cleanly played good match than to win a poorly contested one. Such symptoms of saneness in the Harvard attitude toward football sufficiently dispel the bugaboo of overemphasis. Perhaps super-patriotism has become passe and the ultramodern plays or watches his football with pleasure as the guiding principle...
...commission has a job up its sleeve for every one of the 3,500,000 men now out of work. After a year of repeated stock market raids, wheat milles and bread lines, the specte of a Democratic Congress stalks through the land hand in glove with that greater bugaboo, Prohibition reform...
...Admirals and Senators and Big-Navy propagandists in terms so frank as to stir up a hornet's nest if now made public. Conceivably the President might have analyzed in uncomplimentary fashion the attitude of the Navy's General Board on cruiser limitation or the anti-Japanese bugaboo of Senator Hiram Johnson of California, chief Senate opponent of the Treaty. Conceivably Mr. MacDonald might have expressed sympathy with Mr. Hoover's difficulties...
Johnson's Army. Senator Hiram Johnson, aware of the Japanese bugaboo in his great State of California, last week definitely placed himself at the head of the tiny Senate army opposed to the treaty. He commanded about a dozen votes. To beat the pact, he needs 33 (one more than one-third of the 96 Senators). To gain time to muster new recruits, "Captain" Johnson demanded, apparently without hope, that the pact go over until the December session of Congress. President Hoover and Senators actively supporting the treaty were less concerned at the numerical size of the Johnson army than...