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Once safely installed in the President's Palace at Bogota, one of Senor Olaya's jobs was to take up what was known as the Barco oil concession, valued at $300,000,000 or more. This concession, con trolled by Gulf Oil Corp. which is largely owned by Secretary Mellon & Family, had been canceled by the Colombian Government in 1926. The State Department in 1928 gently pressed for its restoration...
...truck with electric lights ablaze, from which each one receives a sandwich, a doughnut, a cup of coffee. On the side of the truck a sign blazons: "New York American Christmas & Relief Fund Lunch Wagon." For placing a breadline (the American calls it a "sandwich line") in the most con- spicuous spot he could find, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has drawn bitter condemnation from a variety of sources. Showmen declared that the spectacle of misery at the doors of their theatres caused strollers to change their minds about spending money for fun. Merchants charged that out-of-town buyers...
...Decent conduct" cried the Red Moralist, "has nothing to do with Hell or Heaven! Instead of enforcing decent con-duct by threats of a non-existent Hell or by promises of a non-existent Heaven we must bring up our new generations to con-duct themselves decently because a comrade's own usefulness and the well-being of the nation require...
Thought requires the preliminary selection of an opinion which serves as an hypothesis for discussion pro and con. In the course of the student's work on a number of different fields within his chosen Honor School he considers several such hypotheses. But if the work is to be done with care the number of them must be small. And they must be related, so that the discussion of different suggestions begins to interact and provoke thought...
...Berard, 67, Chairman of the French Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee. He, the scholarly assistant director of the Ecole dcs Hantes Etudes, resembled Senator Borah in exceedingly few respects. After 44 years of preparation, Senator Berard published recently his great tome Did Homer Live? Weighing the evidence pro & con with vast erudition, he cautiously concluded that Homer in all probability did live...