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Inferiority. But Anthropologist Hooton's basic finding is no spoofing. He says that a number of anthropological features mark off criminals in the mass from the general population, and different classes of criminals from one another. These features do not occur uniformly enough for individual diagnosis of a criminal type; but simply by occurring more frequently in the large groups of which they are characteristic, they serve, when statistically analyzed, to set aside these groups as anthropologically distinct...
...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee will shortly seek more funds. One way to get them, observers wisecracked after last week's hearings, would be to charge businessmen for the privilege of testifying. No witch-hunt, the hearings turned into a sounding board with advertising value for a number of industries...
...mistakenly thought might be renewed and fortified, disappeared from view: there were fewer writers in any country who seemed to have anything to say to the intellectual public of another. . . . Perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people indeed." His greatest regret: that the price of The Criterion barred it ''to most of the readers who are qualified to appreciate what is good in it, and to criticise what is faulty...
American Agriculture enjoyed relative prosperity during the period 1921-1929, and this was due largely to the fact that the number of farmers was decreasing about 5 per cent while the rest of the population increased by 14 per cent, Dr. Davis said...
...present Administration is to be commended for a number of steps, including its vigorous attack on soil erosion, its intensive efforts to develop a constructive land policy, and its courageous attempts to open up international trade through reciprocal treaties