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...interest and significance, the articles by Dana Reed '43 and E. J. Riches, an official of the International Labor Office, take the honors. Reed writes interestingly and with authority of Technocracy, the depression-time craze which has recently emerged with new trappings, both ornamental and ideological. Mr. Riches contributes a survey of the I.L.O. packed with factual information and providing an element of cheer for the future of international cooperation. Both of these essays smack of serious study, and neither of them indulges in roseate or gloomy speculation...
With these words famed Anglican Bishop Frank Russell Barry of Southwell lashed out last week at Britain's wartime astrology craze. "Few things," he added, "are more demoralizing than to yield to the tyranny of superstition-that moral and intellectual corrosive which destroys the will and undermines the character. . . . If this . . . were to get a hold upon our people it would bring defeat, ruin and damnation. The religion of Christ can never come to terms with...
...houses. Most of them, men & women, were in uniform. They shouted "Happy New Year!" to strangers half seen in the dark, and they sang She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain. The Yankee tune, with its words Anglicized to Hi-yi, yippee, yippee-eye, was the latest craze...
...amazing knack for machinery and aerodynamics. After five years in the Army Air Corps (1917-21), he joined Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna (both of whom later formed their own companies), started Wichita's Travel Air Co. to make small planes. Travel Air boomed with the air craze of the Twenties...
...spread of the craze has helped to prove the old adage that any form of education can be put over to the educates more easily if it has a chocolate coating of entertainment. The zombies and senoritas of the Beachcomber and the South American songs of the Yale Glee Club do more for the cause of the Good Neighbor policy than all the economic reports of Argentinean beef mimeographed in Washington in a decade. Consequently, it is good news that the New England Pan-American Society and the Phillips Brooks House have given up their stuffy sides on Colombian architecture...