Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...
...sportsmen's statement, and the Buchmanites' editing of Sportswriter Vidmer's comment, were egregious examples of an Oxford Group technique which has slowly matured during the years Dr. Buchman has been at work. For Buchmanites it has not been enough to propagate, among "key people," the doctrine of God's direct and special "guidance" of his favorites, and the advantages of living according to the four Buchmanite standards of Absolute Honesty, Love, Purity and Unselfishness. The not-quite-absolutely-honest technique has also been to involve newsworthy non-Buchmanites, simply by getting them to agree publicly...
...Taft's debates with pro-New Deal Congressman-Professor T. V. Smith of Illinois. The tally as to which had better arguments: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Since Bob Taft is a notably inept speaker, and Representative Smith a notably skilled one, the judgment was as much a comment on the New Deal's unpopularity as on the junior Senator from Ohio...
...Andy. She dedicated programs to shut-ins, plugged firemen's benefits, camps for underprivileged, visited cripples, became radio's No. 1 Benefit Girl. To "expand her prestige as an outstanding American woman" Collins last year arranged a three-a-week noonday broadcast of homely comment, book & play criticism. Sensitive to the rising tide of Broadway patrioteering, Kate last year got Irving Berlin to write God Bless America exclusively for her, sang it week after week until last month, when it was released to other patrioteers...
Today the Crimson will distribute at the various Freshman dining halls a questionnaire which, when carefully filled out by any first-year men who have comment to make on the courses they are about to conclude, will form the basis for the Crimson's 1939 Guide to Freshman Courses. This Guide, as is the custom, will be sent to each new Freshman next September in an effort to help the neophyte to avoid the pitfalls of Freshman year which can so easily be dodged if a measure of thoughtful advice on instructors and courses is forthcoming. It has been...