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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they cleaned house among their members, demonstrated the principles of good citizenship at their annual conventions, and behaved less like a pack of cheap, booze-fighting roughnecks at their annual meetings. More than that, if they cannot and will not obey the laws of the country, and of common decency, how long are we going to let the regular law enforcement agencies sit back and condone their bawdy behavior...
...Meanwhile, remember that from 1913 to 1921 I personally was fairly close to world events, and in that period, while I learned much of what to do, I also learned much of what not to do. The common sense, the intelligence of America agree with my statement that 'America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore. America actively engages in the search for peace...
Facts about Germany which came over the cables last week as the world press eagerly followed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's inspection of how the common people fared in Naziland (TIME...
This statement was more emotional than true, for it is common knowledge among informed followers of the game in western Pennsylvania that while Pittsburgh's football-playing "scholarship boys" get their tuition and books free, plus $48.50 a month for board, room and clothes, subsidized Duquesne players are paid not only with free tuition, books, meals, rooms and clothing but $15 a month besides (from sporty alumni) for spending money. Pitt rooters, therefore, thought Father Jones had committed an unpardonable indiscretion and the Duquesne administration hastily apologized to Pittsburgh...
...Author. Most readers were not surprised that Louis Bromfield had once again written a long, thin book-which has nothing in common with E. M. Forster's great Passage to India except locale-but they were surprised to find it brown-skinned. On the publication of his last novel, The Farm (1933), Ohio-born Author Bromfield, long a Senlis (near Paris) expatriate, firmly announced his determination to return to the U. S., henceforth to devote himself to the American scene. His switch was prompted by a spur-of-the-moment decision to see India first; captivated, he made three...