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...controlling a huge sector of American opinion, he has glorified American provincialism, encouraged American irresponsibility, and perverted the principles to which he pays lip service. Thanks to the policies Hearst has advocated so long and violently,--high tariffs, isolation, naval supremacy, and complete laissez-faire,--America stands today an orphan in the family of nations, drifting towards an open break with Japan, (having lost a potential friend in Russia), cursed with an antiquated economic system, and hamstrung by a political framework that makes increasingly necessary the substitution of fascism for progress...
...entertaining as the thunderous radio exploits of Buck Rogers. In Columbus, Ohio the members of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Institute for Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior loses his play hours hanging over the radio, bolts his supper, gets so excited he cannot sleep...
...little Berkshire village of Cookham Dean was a comfortable little house called The Twigs, which belonged to a Mrs. Skrine. Mrs. Skrine also had a Cook-General, a button-nosed treasure of an orphan girl named Edith Saville who was excellent at making jam and bottling fruits. Mrs. Skrine moved away from Cookham Dean, and lent Edith the General to Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Frederick Churchill Sim who lived 100 yards down the road in a house called Old Barton. Later Mrs. Skrine sold The Twigs to a Mr. & Mrs. Stretch, who promptly renamed it Applewood. Under any name Edith...
Backing up an earlier pronouncement by Donald Richberg, new NRA chairman, that the NRA would be administered vigorously, the President told correspondents at his semi-weekly press conference that the NRA is not "the Little Orphan Annie of the administration--if is a very live young lady...
...Hershey Industrial School which does. In the school's account is a trust fund containing 500.000 Hershey common shares (70% of the total outstanding) which Founder Hershey turned over to it in 1909 when he lost interest in making money. The school teaches useful trades to 800 orphan boys who live in houses scattered so widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store...