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...wide drooping mouth, a Vassar graduate and a divorcée. From 1914 to 1917 she was Dr. Wirt's assistant when he was reorganizing New York City's schools. Now she is a school building expert in the Office of Education. The other two women conform, like Miss Barrows, to a familiar Washington type: bright, obscure incumbents of small Government jobs, unmarried, unbeauteous as a rule, and with fairly elemental ideas about politics. Mary Taylor is editor of the AAA's Consumers' Guide. Hildegarde Kneeland has served for ten years as a minor official...
...attempt to disrupt our meeting was carried out with the connivance of University authorities. A rival meeting, unauthorized by the Regent, was given full freedom by the Yard police. Harvard's name was blackened by students in Nazi uniform, shouting for war. The University demands that radical clubs conform to all rules, but turns the other way when its embryonic Fascists violate regulations. The Austrian government which gave the Heimwehr free rein, the German government which took no step against the Hitlerites, practised an analogous "democratic" policy...
...There isn't a fact of life which can be shown on the screen. In certain shows you can't even mention the fact that a woman is going to have a baby. The reason why pictures are unintelligible even to minors is that they are not made to conform with any standard of morality but with a synthetic code made up by committees of bigoted people...
Telegraph officials denied that they would make their telegrams conform to the rules laid down by the valentine manufacturers in their code...
...shouted, banging the Chancellor's door behind him. What more General GÖring said remained an exciting secret last week, but he was understood to have urged use of the full power of Prussia's police and Storm Troops to "break" pastors who do not conform to Nazification of the Church...