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...allowed each Congressman are not a comprehensive test. Consequently, the best bowlers in the U. S. are rarely found in the list of Congressional Champions. This year's ABC is mainly notable because entries and gate receipts, biggest since 1930, are further proof that the mysterious influences which govern U. S. tastes in sport are currently producing a bowling revival. Originally an aristocratic pastime, the form of indoor bowling called "ninepins" acquired such opprobrium early in the 19th Century that laws were passed against it. The contemporary U. S. game, played with ten pins set in triangular formation instead...
Since "Dictatorship" has an ugly sound, Stalin's Stetsky hastily added that after the world has gone Red its triumphant Communists will have no further need to dictate, will set about achieving "that social order in which there will be no need of a "special structure to govern the people." Name of this ultimate social order: Anarchy...
...thousand underlings post over land and sea or sit at desks doing their bidding. Day by day NIRB turns out reams of decisions and orders which, for affected industries, have all the authority of substantive law. In every city, town and hamlet NRA's viceroys, the code authorities, govern as best they can. The 1,400 mills of the cotton textile industry, employing half a million workers, which for years had known no law but strife, now all obey one law in regard to hours, wages, production. To other industries, such as automobiles, the change may make less difference...
...example, the Central Powers were protecting their "besieged fortress" from the encircling policy of the Entente, while the latter group was engaged in crushing the great German military monsters. In the Spanish-American War the United States was protecting the abused Cubans, while Spain defended its right to govern its territory as it saw fit. It may be that in some cases there does exist an actual philosophical conflict between right and wrong, but this is never visible to the populace of the nations concerned...
...great international exhibition at the Royal Academy's Burlington House will be of Chinese art, scheduled for next winter. Collector Eumorfopoulos has agreed to serve on the committee. He will sail for China next month to help choose some of the famed Forbidden City treasures which the Nationalist Govern-ment has offered to lend...