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...crux of the election lies in the coal-mining districts of Pennsylvania. Unless John L. Lewis can swing enough votes to give Willkie the state, the election is in the bag for Roosevelt." This is the opinion of Government Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06, chief political seer of the Faculty...
...went on to point out that the athletic endowment fund started in 1935 would eventually do away with the crux of the whole problem of "bigtime" football--gate receipts. This fund, which is being swelled every year through gifts by the University and alumni and by H.A.A. surpluses, has in five years passed the $400,000 mark and already yields $13,000 annually in interest...
...King's personal physician Lord Horder (chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Shelters) summed up last week some of the basic problems with which the King's Ministers were grappling. "The crux of the problem is overcrowding," said Lord Horder. "The Government has the choice between dispersal and the provision of more shelters. But these two courses are not alternatives: both should be taken...
...interventionist groups praising the proposal to the skies. For most persons the question of conscription has crystallized the whole problem of preparedness--when and for what--and must be thoroughly investigated before a decision is reached. Such an extreme change in American living cannot be hysterically rubber-stamped. The crux of the decision pro or con compulsory military training rests on the belief as to Hitler's future intentions. On the basis of all the facts and statements of Nazi leaders to date, there is a distinct possibility that if Germany wins in Europe she will attempt an invasion...
...Crux of their theories: that aggression is caused by frustration. The German people, said Dr. May, are deeply frustrated. At first they attacked the Jews, have now turned their attacks upon their real frustrators. He explained: "Because they could not place their hands on the English, whom they really hated, they turned to the Jews, innocent bystanders. Since the beginning of the present war we have heard relatively little about the Jewish persecution, for hatred has now been canalized...