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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hutchins, once the "boy wonder'' of education, now turned metaphysician, Porter Sargent says: "He would be sure to get the Catholic vote. . . . The Pope is in agreement with Hutchins. as are Mussolini and Hitler. The fascists recruit from good men spent, scared and in retreat. . . . Hutchins' 'good books' include political documents of no import today, a good deal of myth for the credulous and some pornography not current. . . . But Hutchins may not be unredeemable, if he could only get away from his medievalists, if [Philosopher Mortimer J.] Adler could be sent...
...dank, one-room Chicago tenement, agents of the board of health last fortnight discovered a pair of starving, premature twins, a boy and a girl who did not look alike. While hospital nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both...
...famous. His crayon drawing of the late T. E. Lawrence in Arab headdress gives that long-jawed little man all his well-earned dignity. When the practical Lord Leverhulme, soap king of England, cut the head out of John's portrait of him in 1920 so he could get it in his safe, most of the artists and art dealers in London went on strike for 24 hours...
...department would tell them in advance what they were allowed to do under the antitrust laws. Mr. Cummings last week said that henceforth he would issue frequent statements covering: 1) conditions in an industry which he thinks are in restraint of trade; 2) economic results he hopes to get from an anti-trust proceeding; 3) reason he chose a particular procedure-such as criminal prosecution, civil suit, consent decree...
...stock of an aircraft corporation regarded by the trustee as of little or no value; to buy a stock exchange seat for a customer's man; to make a loan (now defaulted) on two second-hand airplanes. Trustee Ballantine wants to return the Reynolds* and Corporate Administration stock, get back the money Continental paid...