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...baiting Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, addressed the Advertising Club of New York last week on a subject of much concern to Red-baiters-radicalism in the colleges. He, a Yaleman, said that "pink doctrines" originate in eastern seaboard institutions. Ignoring the paradox, he also said that the "excessive extravagance" of U. S. school and college buildings is "merely imitated after the baronial and palatial halls of Harvard and Yale." Later: "Perhaps I should have included Princeton." Next day Col. McCormick was neatly pinked by genial Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Dean Gauss said he knew...
...fact that Maxim Litvinov, a moderate at heart, has been able to hold his popularity and power in the Communist Party is just another paradox of the Stalin regime. Some 100% Bolshevists excuse him for the position he holds. As Foreign Commissar it is his duty to move among tainted bourgeois, wear bourgeois clothes. It is not unnatural that he should occasionally think bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms...
...return of beer not only stirred the nation's economic interest but raised a tangle of legal questions for definitive answers to which President Roosevelt had to look to the Supreme Court. Major paradox: the new law assumes that 3.2% beer is no more intoxicating than ginger ale, yet the Federal Government stands pledged to protect from importations any State that assumes otherwise. A brewer in a Wet State may start to ship his product through a Dry State to another Wet State, only to have the Dry State confiscate his freight as intoxicating and call upon the Federal...
...paradox, the tendency of liberal-minded socialites to assist revolutionists against an autocratic regime has been dignified as a "law of revolution" by that eminent authority Comrade Leon Trotsky, concocter of the theory of "The Permanent Revolution" (TIME, March...
This "progressive saving," the decree advised, "can be partly accomplished by the use of weaker light bulbs." Paradox": 700 mi. south of Moscow the Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant, star turn of the Five-Year Plan, is able to generate today more current than all Moscow could waste, is unable to run at more than a fraction of capacity because factories designed to use its giant power have not yet been built within range of Dnieprostroy...