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...dreams has robbed the stock market of much of its former glamour. But there is a new force operating to send the money-lustful young man into more constructive fields. Legislation now before Congress for the control of the national exchanges will, in all probability, completely change the complexion of that once lucrative business...
...Liberal Clubs carries considerable prestige outside of Cambridge, yet within the College the Club is regarded by many as a group of shaggy-haired opportunists intent on utilizing the Club as an instrument to forward their own pet schemes. These beliefs are fostered by the diverse political complexion of the Club's membership, ranging from these who would pursue political will o' the wisps to those who wish to carry out a constructive political program free from the taint of the soap-box- orator...
National Significance. Had no compromise been reached on the economy bill, the political repercussions might have cost the Governor his reelection. A Democratic defeat in the nation's key-State next November might change the political complexion of all national Democracy, especially since that State is the President's own and its Governor his good friend. To prevent such a catastrophe, State Chair man James Farley let it be known last week that he was building a new Democratic organization in New York City...
...fiscal 1935) or to unbalance the budget in a big way, to stagger the country with a deficit beyond all expectations. Few political quidnuncs failed to agree that he had chosen the more astute choice. Their varying reasons : 1) By telling the worst and putting the worst possible complexion on it he destroyed fears born of uncertainty, hastened the financial community's acceptance of the facts, cut down to a solid bottom on which a new structure of confidence could be built...
...politics that the old dividing line between Democrats and Republicans is today supplanted by a new line, less regular but more real, between Left and Right, collectivist and individualist, "new socialist" and "old capitalist." In viewing the present Congress, especially the Senate, it is noteworthy that the new liberal complexion derives not only from President Roosevelt but from the old "insurgent" Republicans or Progressives with whom, the old Democratic minority used to work. Out of line with all parties for a lifetime, Nebraska's grey old Senator Norris, who finally slew the archaic lame duck session of Congress with...