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...China by way of the U. S. Navy Medical Corps this month came a vivid surgeon's-eye view of heroic Chinese resistance to the Japanese onslaught which swept down from Manchukuo, entered "China proper" through the Great Wall and stopped just short of Peiping (TIME, May 29, et ante}. Excerpts from the report* of Lieut.-Commander Morton D. Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded by aerial...
...principal defects of the course, dullness and superficiality, can be traced to one source, the variety and uninterestedness of the lecturers. Messrs. Kittredge, Lowes, Lake, Greenough, et al., are undoubtedly fine scholars and eminent authorities in their respective fields; but their combined efforts produce only a hodge-podge of unrelated and uninspiring details, a result falling far short of that which might be obtained by one man of lesser eminence whose job it was to give to Freshmen and Sophomores a concise and integrated picture of English literature as a whole and of the various authors and their works...
Regarding your new heading of "Rolphing" adopted at the behest of a horrified old gentleman from the effete East (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.) it strikes me that this is a departure from TIME's policy of strict neutrality on controversial questions...
...January 1933 already filibustering in the Senate for "reflation or revolution." In February on the very day that Michigan's banks were collapsing like a house of cards, he wrote letters appealing for inflation to the big bankers of Manhattan-Morgan, Aldrich, Mitchell, Potter, Harrison et al. Said he to them: "After months of effort, here we are forced to appeal from an impotent Congress and a short-sighted administration to you, a higher power, to stop forcing the retreat and to, at once, give the order to advance...
...rule for weighing the importance of the opinion of the legislature. It should be added, however, that the Court has refused to sustain a law on the ground that the emergency which made it constitutional had ceased to exist. (See Wolff v. Court of Ind. Relations, 262 U.S., 522 et alia...