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...From the very outset this has been nothing but a case of political persecution in retaliation for my investigation of Harry Daugherty and the 'Ohio gang' in the Department of Justice. The attempt of the Daugherty crowd to 'get' me started when I began the investigation that, by the weight of public opinion, drove Daugherty out of public life...
...favor of the lyrics or the staging or the book of "The Fool for Scandal", but we are heartily in accord with the spirit in which in is given. In any musical comedy, whether amateur or professional, it is important that the actors should realize at the outset that their efforts are not going to revolutionize the drama, but may very likely serve as excellent entertainment for several odd hundred people. To aftain that end all the necessary seriousness of rehearsals and first performances must be dropped when the show gets under way. To be gay and light and charming...
...number of teachers who are continually deserting the ranks for the substantial returns of business may not be alarming, yet the annually increasing numbers of brilliant men who are drawn at the outset of their careers into the highly paid fields is providing incalculably disastrous both for American universities and for the American people. The effect is far reaching and even the standards of national thought, culture, and life itself are suffering a profound erosion. Two and a half billions of dollars in the last decade have been donated the the higher institutes of learning and imposing plants and Gothic...
...narrative at the outset reveals two girls in their pajamas. They are discussing Love. One indicates that kisses spread thinly over a quantity of males make life entertaining for her. The other takes the subject seriously: evidently her attitude was wrong. She took the love-making of somebody's else husband seriously and there was divorce discussion, threats and loyalty. She was further confused at her own father's inclination to cooperate with her unselective friend in a matter of kisses...
Nicaragua. Proselytism is usually more dangerous for the proselyters than for the proselytees, as a party of Protestant missionaries discovered last week in Catholic Granada, Nicaragua. From the outset the local Catholic Bishop was distinctly adverse to having the Protestant Central American Mission ensconced in his diocese. But the Protestants came, presumably to proselytize, and the Catholics grew irate, made angry noises, threw stones, then threatened violence, death. The missionaries ?two females and one male?asked the Nicaraguan Government for protection. A commission of inquiry and 50 soldiers were sent...