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One thing, it seems, that many university officials imagine is a demand by the college Negro for social opportunities. This is a tragic delusion, for nothing is further from the intelligent Negro's mind. He has long ago become socially self-sufficient-and especially in a city as large as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE NEGRO | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Polly of the Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a product of that school of cinematic thought which believes that all ministers of the gospel should be wholesome, naïve souls whose love is pure, and that all low-born theatrical folk promptly speak correct English as soon as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

In the interests of consistency, the "Princetonian" has just declined to run advertisements of the Hun School tutoring sessions for next week's Freshman Uniforms: We are not under the delusion that this action, which deprives our already poverty-stricken daily of sorely-needed shekels, will prevent the Hun School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Johnny, Get Your Gun | 12/9/1930 | See Source »

¶ The new Tariff Commission which President Hoover expects to tell him how to flex out scientifically the injustices and inequalities of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act stood complete last week. The President revealed the names of only his first three selections: Henry P. Fletcher (chairman), Republican, of Pennsylvania, onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 22, 1930 | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Bone drys can extract little comfort from the returns. In the aggregate they are distinctly unfavorable to an uncompromising prohibition program and they dispose effectively of the delusion that when the "dying generation of topers" disappears, dryness will become as prevalent as aridity in Gobi.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/16/1930 | See Source »

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