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...public sentiment, and joined by even the ill-organized, quarrelsome House of Representatives in its famed standing vote of March 29, resolved that in fiscal 1933 the U. S. must spend no more than it takes in, that the Budget must balance. Three consecutive, mounting deficits would certainly impair the public credit...
Professor Carver is a supporter of Hoover, and is advocating a dry ticket, believing that a wet plank either would not be acceptable to Hoover, or would seriously impair his chances of reelection. The main opponents of Professor Carver in the primary are also supporters of Hoover, but on a wet ticket...
...very minor reason for the writer to leave home and a major reason for him to return there after ten years, Seed, as a cinema, tells essentially the same story and by a shift of emphasis defends the conduct which Author Norris attempted to discourage. This change does not impair the values of the story so much as does the repetitious photography of the children - first as obstreperous small fry, later as simpering adolescents. Bart Carter, the writer, lives with his wife, Peggy, and urchins in a Manhattan suburb while slaving comfortably as a publisher's clerk. Mildred...
...exceed the total cost of our expenditures during the World War [$21,850,000,000]. . . . Veterans must manifest a peacetime patriotism in future demands comparable to that which brought them honor in the War if the burden upon the Government is not to become intolerable and reaction impair their cause. If we teach our young men that service to our country means the Government thereafter must reward them irrespective of need, then we are undermining the very foundation of good citizenship...
...onetime Attorney General of Massachusetts, who died last month at the age of 81, was made public. Said the will: "Believing that the modern feminist movement tends to take woman out of the home and put her in politics, government or business, and that this has already begun to impair the family as a basis of civilization and its advance, I bequeath to Harvard. Yale, Princeton and Columbia colleges $25,000 each . . . [to be used] toward creating or developing sound public opinion and action on this subject...