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...repeated by the prisoners as each confessed to what he had been accused of with only trifling discrepancies. As in previous Moscow trials it was again the case that, since each charge was answered by confession, there was little or no introducing of evidence to prove the charges, except insofar as one prisoner's confession tended to corroborate another's. The chief prisoners, as usual, said they preferred not to be defended by the only lawyers obtainable in Russia, the State's lawyers, and these were busy only with the troubles of small fry. In a general...
...belief that under this new constitutional practice the President should in every fourth year, insofar as seems reasonable, review the existing state of our national affairs and outline broad future problems, leaving specific recommendations for future legislation to be made by the President about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress...
...Mississippi and sell at a profit in a few years. The world has come to demand more intensive training for the business of improving it, Lincoln Steffens notwithstanding. When the college man comes to realize this situation, he has awakened to the problems which confront him; and insofar as President Conant is able to carry out his precepts at Harvard, this student will be able to estimate his intellectual capacity...
...Insofar as Harvard can supply an education, it can supply these things. The field is free for a new team of journalists, better drilled in fundamentals and quicker on the ball. It is time to begin thinking about the criteria determinining the use of the Nieman bequest, for this fund may give Harvard the opportunity to call the plays...
...true that for the year 1936-7 there will be a temporary hiatus insofar as the enrollment of new students in the Department of Regional Planning is concerned, for the contribution from the general fund will be used largely to complete research already undertaken. Beginning next year, however funds will be released for other purposes...