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...corrupt form can never be abolished at Harvard: at best it can be driven underground. When however, this has been accomplished, the Crimson will rest satisfied. Driven underground, the tutoring bureaus are stripped of their sham of respectability. Their work is recognized for what it is; depraved and dishonest. And Harvard need no longer be humiliated by recognizing them as part of her educational process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLUTION | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

...straightforward Joe Lyons broke with his party and resigned from Australia's Labor Cabinet, when inflation and debt repudiation, which he thought dishonest, were proposed as the way out of Australia's financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: DEATH OF HONEST JOE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...merely spent a dollar each week a few years ago and then could forget about their English A themes, are only two examples. Yet these stories represent a serious problem for the University that will remain as long as even a small percentage of students continue to be downright dishonest. Individual "ghosts" and organizations of them, local and national, plying their trade now as they have for years, should be violently discouraged from continuing their activities around Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIND OVER MEMORY | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

...Lawrence was put in ahead of him as State Chairman. Beating the Jones-Earle ticket would restore Senator Guffey as Pennsylvania's No. 1 Democrat and patronage dispenser. At this announcement, Senator Guffey declared himself shocked and grieved. He said Publisher Vann's reasoning was "deceitful and dishonest." He professed his utter loyalty to the Jones-Earle ticket. He protested that it was "not through Guffey but through the Democratic Party that the colored people received so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Purge | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Prime refinement claimed by Dr. Link is scientific phrasing of questions. He warned that careless or dishonest polliticians can easily rig a poll. Changing one or two words, he said, sometimes changes responses by 10% to 20%. Thus, 69% of a group who were asked "Are we headed for prosperity?" answered "Yes," but when the question was changed to "Are we headed for a reasonable prosperity?" the yeses increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Pollitician | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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