Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranted endlessly about freedom of the press being a "glorious ideal cemented in the hearts of the American pee-pul by our great constitooshun." Mr. Bliven analyzed the facts and presented his conclusion that free speech was well on the road to suppression. Whether or not his reasoning was correct, he at least had something more than trite catch-words to utter...
...information is correct, and I think it is, nothing can prevent "a complete world break-down within the next two months...
...Birth records at New Haven, Conn, show that James Augustine Farrell was born in 1862. If this is correct he would be 70 next month. When he was asked about it last October Mr. Farrell admitted he was confused, said he might make a special trip to his native city to investigate. On the company's records the year of his birth is given...
...positions which undergraduates need so much as information about the fields towards which they gravitate. It is safe to say that almost every man who has been able to graduate from Harvard can be of some effective use in the world, if he finds himself in the correct environment. The Consultant on Careers should spare him the bewilderment and bitterness of disillusion which so often makes him deviate from his purpose and lose his personal faith...
...explanation for all this is not easily deciphered in the wreckage. Economists speak hopefully of industrial flaws, psychologists unearth a mental hysteria, moralists write dolefully of the Jazz Age. All are probably in part correct, but with the myopia of the specialist they lose sight of the complexity of the situation. The depression appears not to be the direct result of any single factor, it is not solely an economic, social, or political thing. But out of the welter of plausible arguments one fact persistently rises, that economically, socially and politically the world had lost its balance, its stability. There...