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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carlisle manifesto was received without comment at University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter Assails Economists For Treatise on New Deal | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...further ironic comment on the muddled and glucy state of the Congressional mind is provided by the debate about the tax to be levied on liquor. Mr. Connelly wants a tax of five dollars a gallon or more in order, he explains, to break up the "Whiskey Trust." Unfortunately, this does not appeal to Mr. Shoemaker of Wisconsin. What we need even more than a five cent cigar, he avers, is whiskey at twenty-five cents a quart. As an after-thought he appended the interesting information that when he was a guest of the government at Leavenworth Prison, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...excellent knowledge of the milieus within which these individuals act. Her book is not a merry tale for light, inattentive perusal around the Christmas tree or fire place, but is a highly stimulating, thought-provoking lesson in life because it sets down so objectively, almost without any comment whatsoever, the essential realities of people with whose problems, large and small, we should never have become acquainted had it not been for this worthwhile account by Lady Eleanor. It is a book worth having and worth giving, at this season especially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK OF THE WEEK | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

...myself". There is much more of this kind of explanation, and it is impossible to feel, despite "Point Counter Point", that Mr. Murry is an insincere man. One is only reminded of Harriet Martineau's statement that she was "ready to accept the universe", and of Carlyle's comment on it. Mr. Murry is still unwilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Start of The Rainbow | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...clean uniform. If ill in any way, the child is segregated. All the children have individual towels, drinking cups, tooth brushes. All are taught young how to care for themselves. In 1932, there were 3,000,000 Russian children in such nurseries. Concerning this system the reporters comment: "In a good home in which a mother gives intelligent as well as loving care she gives more than can be obtained in full measure otherwise. . . . In the present circumstances of Russia, including not only the industrial occupation of mothers, but the defective housing conditions, [nurseries] undoubtedly are doing highly beneficent work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Socialized Service | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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