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...should repeal immediately those provisions of law that compel the Federal Government to go into the market to purchase, sell and speculate in farm products...
Because they objected to "lockstep" education, Arthur Smart and his wife Mary, of Vineland, N. J., would not send their children to public school. Mrs. Smart taught small Arthur, 9, and Elizabeth, 7, while Citizen Smart looked on in approval. Last month local school officials took steps to compel them to send the children to school (TIME, May 2). Much to their relish, the Smarts were interviewed and photographed by metropolitan newshawks. Last week they were again in the news. The time had come for Mrs. Smart to prove publicly her fitness to teach...
...extra meals only to the $10.50 mark, may excite some opposition, but it can be regarded as a just measure to help support the lowered rates. Whatever halo may still hover over the roof of Lehman Hall is quickly dissipated by a consideration of the means utilized literally to compel men to sign for the twenty-one meal ticket. Twenty-one meals a week will cost nine dollars; fourteen meals would be priced at $.7.75. Between the two limits one finds seven meals for $1.25, truly a seductive figure in these days, to lure men into House Dining Halls...
...this be a warning to all and a free advertisement for unemployed Cambridge carpenters in search of a large territory for trade! Our room leases may stipulate that we may be searched at any time by University officials looking for a clapper, but there is nothing to compel us to trade with the Maintenance Department. Eugene Du Bois...
...Apparently a reference to round-faced father Charles E. Coughlin of the Detroit diocese, radio preacher, who last week presented himself before the House Ways & Means Committee to say: "To pay the Bonus will . . . put $2,000,000,000 into . . . trade. ... It will compel us to revalue the . . . dollar. . . . We have given the last transfusion . . . and soon we will have a corpse on our hands. ... If we do not revalue the dollar legally-remember Russia . . . the French revolution . . . our own revolution...