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...Forthright Columnist Raymond Clapper lifted a lonely voice against Mr. McNutt's taking off: "Underground scandal of Washington . . . slow-motion assassination . . . major campaign atrocity . . . torture . . . poison-gas rumors . . . [Treasury] investigation about as secret as Mr. Roosevelt's celebrated cigaret-holder . . . crucifying...
...uncompromising and forthright as a custard pie in the face, the Student Council Food Report is one of those rare pieces of research that is likely to get things done. Narrowing its field down to a manageable size, the Council Committee stuck simply to describing what goes on in the Dining Halls now. It wisely refrained from setting itself up as a board of efficiency experts, or drawing up a whole new plan for the Halls; likewise it postponed work on the problem of student waiters until it can find out more definitely how the undergraduates feel about it. Thus...
...British Empire, as the price of peace. Whether or not the Führer shouted such claims to Sumner Welles in the Chancellery, they were certainly in the inspired stories from Berlin. The arrival of the official U. S. envoy had smoked out the German Revolution's forthright demands...
...rousing vote of approval to TIME for its forthright and scathing article, which places the blame for Philadelphia's misgovernment and plight (TIME, Jan. 8) squarely where it belongs. If any scandal calls for national publicity, it is the Republican plunderbund's 50 years of public-be-damned despoilment of our city, to pay for which that party now resorts to taxing the pay envelope of the lowest wage earner. The tragic irony of "honest" (or stupid) Mayor Lamberton's inaugural words, "If it [my administration] fails, you can blame the Republican Party," must be obvious...
...inviting Granville Hicks '23 to come to Harvard as its guest speaker, the American Civilization Plan has delivered the most forthright possible answer to the editors of "Social Justice". That magazine in its latest issue flays President Conant for approving an extra-curricular book-list which, it alleges, "bootlegs Communism into Harvard by the backdoor." Although the writings of Mr. Hicks are specifically cited in the article as illegal liquor, the Civilization Plan has gone the whole hog by asking the scholarly radical to lecture here...