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...word from Elder Statesman Saionji, 85, steadies Nippon. To Elder Statesman Root, pleading once more for the World Court last fortnight, the Senate and nation turned deaf ears, paid heed instead to the vocabularies of William Randolph Hearst and Father Charles E. Coughlin...
...human rights-the Liberty Leaguers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Association - can find scant consolation as their programs for doles, for balanced budgets, for gold standards, for free rein in the industrial field, are indirectly consigned to the wastepaper basket of ancient history. Let them heed the words of the President that 'we have undertaken a new order of things...
...trusted to rear and educate her daughter properly. Mrs. Whitney promptly set out to besmirch her sister-in-law's reputation, to show that in the years when she was gadding about Paris, Cannes, Biarritz and Deauville with her hard-drinking, hard-living friends she had paid no heed at all to Gloria's upbringing. Mrs. Harry Hays Morgan, Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother, turned up as one of the most damaging witnesses against her own daughter. Mrs. Morgan testified that for four and a half years Mrs. Vanderbilt had callously ignored her child, given her no schooling...
...champions of this cause seem to heed the repeated complaint that men laboriously eking out their tuition and living are not really deriving any advantage from their studies. Without denying the value of university training, an observer might doubt whether it is of any worth to those who must endure privation and exhaustion to secure it. Wearied by part-time jobs, their hours for study limited, these people are hardly in a position to enjoy the intellectual and social advantages of college. Their frequently inferior work tends to degrade the standard of teaching, and save for a few superior individuals...
...truth seems to me so much more interesting and proud." Not I, But the Wind is in no sense a great book but it is a convincingly naive memoir, thickly padded with unpublished Lawrence letters, that most Lawrentians will want to read. And, having read it, even Lawrentians may heed the mute nunc dimittis of their master's shade...