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...coax him home. He keeps close watch on everything at Smith and as much as possible on the world outside. While Dr. Neilson is far from satisfied with education as it is, youngsters like Chicago's Hutchins who harbor elaborate and drastic schemes for reforming it, he considers "naÏve." Chief extracurricular activity in recent years has been his editorship of Webster's New International Dictionary. Currently Smith is worried over reports that President Neilson is going to resign. That he will not do so until he is ready is certain, since he is chairman of Smith...
...left of Green Light except the sediment of kindergarten metaphysics which gave the book its mass appeal. In the picture, this sediment is represented by Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Dean Harcourt, a strangely overwrought clergyman who, when the other characters come to him for counsel, expounds to them his naïve conception of human affairs. "I like to think of civilization as a parade," he observes, making the point that mass destiny is more important than the fate of the individual. Somewhere else among the Dean's motor-minded messages upon Good & Evil there occurs the traffic-signal...
Nearly one-quarter of his statement was devoted to saying that he thought the utilities had been pretty big pigs in the past. "I do not advocate co-operation through any naïve belief that the private companies have a consistent record of behavior...
...referring principally to those two heritages from the Wiggin regime, Fox Film and General Theatres Equipment. "Obviously," said conservative Banker Aldrich, "holdings of this kind can not be regarded as normal earning assets for a commercial bank and the income de rived from them, therefore, is in the na ture of special revenue rather than ordinary earnings...
Occasion for this naïve pronouncement was the news that Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, apparently confident that her newly-appointed husband would remain Ambassador to Russia for at least two years, was sending 2,000 pints of frozen cream to Moscow and 25 electric refrigerators to keep it in. The Red comrade's smartcrack betrayed gross ignorance of Mrs. Davies' corporate connections and of the capitalistic uses of publicity...