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...local Chinese commander, hurling threats which would ordinarily have made him grovel, Chinese General Hsiao Chengying said with quiet, studied Oriental insolence that the five provinces had just received the strongest telegraphic orders from Nanking: "So if you want autonomy declared, General Doihara, you must force Nanking to instruct us differently...
...Credit as he intends to practice it, Premier Aberhart obliged: ''Briefly, what Social Credit means is that we are going to take what we produce, increase it scientifically, and distribute it to all. Like any company the Province of Alberta will deposit security in the banks, then instruct the banks to credit we citizen-shareholders with $25 each monthly. The citizen will draw on that credit, his 'dividend check' being the same thing as cash-and naturally just as good...
...regarded as stalling for time in the expectation that dirt on the Power lobby turned up by the Senate investigating committee would persuade Representatives to change their minds about the "death sentence." Last week the Administration put its theory to a test when Representative Rayburn moved that the House instruct its conferees to accept the "death sentence." Thereupon the House showed itself totally unimpressed by Senator Black's dirt, gave Administration hopes and prestige a mighty clout. Having originally rejected the "death sentence" on a teller vote by 216-10-146, Representatives now went on record against...
...represents a trend which has become increasingly noticeable at Harvard. It is a matter for speculation how long it will be necessary to wait for the logical corollary of this trend--fewer lecture courses, accompanied by vastly more than the present emphasis on lectures which stimulate as well as instruct. But when prosperity is once more upon us--when the Blue Eagle's head is hidden, ostrich-like, in the sand, when Hour Exams have been abolished in reality and not only in theory--Harvard must, if only to pass it on to the next generation, revive the long lost...
...attack of reprehensible conditions otherwise unattackable, and the presentation of a necessary news service. These petty publications fall into none of these categories. They exist only as the media for advertising copy, and their only purpose is to enlarge the emoluments of the publishers. They neither amuse nor instruct. On the other hand their mere existence is a detrimental influence...