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...there is a grievous fallacy in the charge that the removal of prejudices entails loss of ideals; and if, from the welter of advice the unfortunate Freshman must hearken to in his first few weeks, he can remember one small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light...
...Robles soon persuaded the court that a Government commission which protested the sale to Mr. Quatrocchi as a characteristic Jesuit subterfuge was in grievous error. The Jesuit fathers sold their $520,000 headquarters for $485, explained Lawyer Gil Robles smoothly, because it had been "damaged" by a Spanish...
...issue at stake was the passage of a bill designed to enlarge, improve and advance the powers of Tennessee Valley Authority. The Senate passed the measure last May. The House Military Affairs Committee, having heard many grievous charges against TVA by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, June 3), first tabled the bill, then by a slim margin reported it out in a revised version. As they came before the House, these TVAmendments, instead of enlarging, considerably restricted TVAuthority...
...President Roosevelt got a new right hand to manage one of the New Deal's most grievous problems: code enforcement. Sol Ariah Rosenblatt, 33-year-old Harvard graduate, formerly NRAdministrator in charge of the Amusement Code, was put in charge of all NRA enforcement officers in the U. S., given the job of passing on code violations. Thus he became in effect No. 2 man of the Recovery Administration...
Most humble is this ignoble Sage of the Age who has felt it his most unworthy duty to leave country for last three weeks. Most grievous also am I that little I Fling had to be dragged along, but you never can tell about Fling...