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...Answer to Moscow." Correspondents agreed that His Majesty's Government are attempting a factual, activist answer to the claims of Communist agitators that "Conditions are better in Russia." Soviet housing is a star feature of the Five-Year Plans...
...absurd demand that a cinema which purports to treat a historical theme should be judged according to the fidelity with which it cleaves to the factual skeleton of the past has long been abandoned. When there is no real assurance that deep and erudite works of scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives...
...Kramer '35, president of the Liberal Club, issued the following statement: "Mr. Flynn, from the point of view of technique in speaking, is probably one of the most magnetic and compelling of the speakers whom the Liberal Club has presented to Harvard audiences in the past. In addition, his factual knowledge of the American business scene is probably exceeded by no present day journalist...
Emphasis should be placed upon the fact that an examination of the candidate's scholastic record forms an integral part of this system of admission. In this way the requisite factual information is assured. As a standard of judging preparatory schools the success of their graduates at college rather than on the entrance examinations is stressed. College study demands not so much a definite quota of facts-the variety of subjects accepted for entrance proves this but for that "ability to think," which is identical with the "ability to learn," in any but the most parrot-like sense...
...conjointly with us a police mission for the eventual re-establishment of order. . . . Chancellor Hitler affirms his wish for peace. We ask him by associating in the policy which we are pursuing in Eastern Europe to translate his words into acts! . . . We have no intention of inclining before the factual situation created for us by the rearmament of Germany...