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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News--Gosh, a letter from the Dean every day! That's some going, all right. But our Yale Record got a letter from the Purity League saying that they were going too far. That's pretty good...
...different today. Vag didn't have any hens. And he didn't have a lot of other things, such as something to do when he got out of college or someone to pay him to do it, or a roof and three meals while he was doing it. And there was no place to go where he could shoot Indians or pan gold. He was going to have to do it the hard way. Security was no more, and even America's muchtouted opportunity was slowly vanishing. And yet somehow Vag was distinctly glad he had not been...
This warning was echoed later last week in Chicago when Mr. Arnold's Executive Assistant Wendell Berge addressed the American Finance Conference. This association of independent finance companies got the Government into its finance company suits by charging that 75% of new car financing had been grabbed through coercive means by the four big companies owned or tied up with automobile companies.* At their annual convention in Chicago last week, members of the Conference heard Lawyer Berge discuss at length the theory of consent decrees as a justifiable compromise in the public interest and declare that advertising "probably cannot...
...sounds like something by Evelyn Waugh, filled with wrecks, broken legs, poetry, rebellion, with great leaps from continent to continent, and terms at Harvard sandwiched between visits to New Zealand for skiing, to Rapallo, Italy to see Ezra Pound. Recovering after breaking his legs skiing down Mt. Washington, he got a job as literary editor of New Democracy, a short-lived weekly preaching Social Credit. When New Democracy folded, he decided to keep on publishing his own department as a literary annual...
This social mess has a particularly un fortunate effect on love: it results in what Spenlove-McFee calls another Gresham's law,* in which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...