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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democracy to Mr. Hays is a living organism which adapts itself to environment. It has capacity for change, for absorbing new ideas and making use of them to fit into the framework of existing institutions. It is far more workable than any totalitarian government because it follows no rules except to respond to what the people want. The most exciting chapters of his book though the most sketchy, outline our progress in such fields as labor, agriculture, industry, science and invention. Mr. Hays proves conclusively that in America, at least, democracy has worked...
Last Saturday the Cornell crew rowed to a victory over Syracuse and M.I.T. The race was run over a short course and would not mean a great deal one way or the other, except that M.I.T. was left six lengths behind at the finish Line. The Harvard crew only registered six lengths itself against Technology...
Pressure. New York's fair is a private business venture set up by 121 incorporators with a board of directors, officers and all the other main adjuncts of an ordinary business enterprise except that it is "nonstock, non-profit," pays no taxes...
Foreign nations put up $31,000,000 for buildings alone, sent $100,000,000 worth of exhibits to fill them. This was the first of Whalen's big coups. When he went to Europe he found that all the major nations except Russia belonged to the International Bureau of Expositions. When the Bureau decided on only a limited participation in the fair, President Whalen blandly returned to Manhattan, presently announced that Russia would build a $4,000,000 pavilion. Unwilling to play second fiddle in any swing session of propaganda, the other nations promptly upped their appropriations...
...shadow of Japanese planes stayed over Mona Gardner on her eleventh-hour reconnaissance of three menaced Eastern empires (French, Dutch and British). Everywhere she found distrust of the Japanese, little evidence of their effective penetration except the inevitable Japanese photographic shop in every strategic railway junction, harbor, mining town...