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...years later his successors do not dare openly to condemn (it) . . . for they profess adherence to the form. . . . They love to intone praise of liberty, but in their hearts they distrust majority rule because an enlightened majority will not tolerate the abuses which a privileged minority would seek to foist upon the people as a whole...
Most of these suggestions had to do with the Council's finances. At present the Council is supported by voluntary contributions, three-fifths of its income being gifts from bankers. SEC has no very high opinion of bankers, particularly those bankers who helped foist on the U. S. public the $2,000,000,000 worth of dollar bonds now in default. Moreover, SEC found that bankers in their various capacities of trustees, paying agents and underwriters were frequently lined up on the side, not of their customers, but of their clients, the defaulters...
...realize that circulation figures of publications for which there is no charge are entirely in the hands of the publishers, consequently, of no value. The large piles of unclaimed free Guides on the House periodical shelves should attest this fact. If the publishers still feel in the mood to foist their unfunny copy on the University without the revenue derived from advertising, then and only then will their publication be justified. Then, perhaps, they may call their magazines...
...enthusiastic over walking for golf's sake. All Germany has only 42 golf clubs, against some 2,000 clubs and courses in England and Scotland and 5,600 in the U. S. Last week, as much to make jobs as anything else, the Nazi high command prepared to foist golf on the German people. It ordered the exclusive clubs to lower their membership fee to two marks for adults, one mark for minors. It prepared to dot Germany with public courses, lower the cost of clubs and balls and announce a swarm of tournaments, beginning with a national amateur...
CLUB LIBERALE...71 Foity-Foist Street, Union Square. Pretty wild crowd what there is of it, but usually rather dull. Nothing ever doing. No floor show, no music, no food. Under new management (every week). Has never been raided but its a bad place to get into a fight. Has no bouncer, you can just say and do what you like. People just pay no attention...