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...appeal that the commuters should be allowed a fuller participation in college life is liable to be met by a fervent rendering of the words "House unity" or "House corporate personality," or "House spirit." The question is a confused one; particularly in the early years of the House Plan, it is necessary to set down a few general notions. The following are offered...
Public opposition was no less loud and fervent than it was last month. Since then, with Hearst's Herald & Examiner shouting daily encouragement, a Save-Our-Schools Committee had been sniping at the Board on all sides. It held mass meetings, getting such speakers as Clarence Darrow who flayed the Board for "selling the school children down the river...
...month in office. Assistant Secretary of State Payer made news last week with a fervent speech at Washington's University Club. With many an oratorical flourish he discussed the New Deal, laid down its "Ten Commandments." Excerpts...
...Hearstian Herald & Examiner had helped to whip it up with daily scourgings of the "handful of political appointees'' attempting "to wreck the city's school system and rob her 500,000 school children of their educational birthright." A "Save Our Schools" committee had sprung into fervent being. Claiming to represent 40 civic organizations, it had deluged the city with petitions, dodgers, tickets for the mass meeting. Other clubs and societies had pelted the board with protests. Cried the Tax Service Association of Illinois: "What we are doing in Chicago is to take a backward step of which...
Next day two statesmen from the American continent-Tennessee's fervent Cordell Hull and Canada's vehement Premier Richard Bedford Bennett-joined forces to put President Roosevelt's thesis across. For several days the British dominions, all far more radical than the Mother Country, had been warming up to the special Roosevelt brand of "price raising." All speeches made were kept secret, but at one point Secretary Hull brandished under the knifelike nose of French Finance Minister Bonnet a copy of that thick pamphlet, the Conference agenda, asking with passionate emphasis whether there were not scores...