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...stands, has been responsible for the banning of about fifty books in the past year. The new measure would entirely eliminate books from jurisdiction under this law, and a book would be judged by its context as a whole rather than by a single phrase or paragraph...
...diabolically clever masterpiece. He takes a couple of thousand words to prove that Harvard men are egocentric asses trying to appear indifferent when they are not, starving in Harvard Square hashhouses, and lying prostrate in idolatrous worship of the Great God Final Club. He takes a concluding paragraph to show that Harvard men are studious and passable. The result is a highly spiced article of sure-fire appeal to a public which wants its college atmosphere belching fire and brimstone...
...paragraph quoted in TIME, Jan. 14 issue, from a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt from me John C. Box of Texas, of whom I've never heard, is fairly representative of the expressions of those who continue to use their efforts and influence to ''break up" the Democratic part...
Another misstatement is in the first paragraph of your editorial. You say that they (President Lowell and I) are agreed that drinking and the sale of liquor have gone on practically undiminished: I do not agree to any such statement. It can scarcely be inferred from President Lowell's statement that "Prohibition has no doubt done good. It has abolished the saloon; it has diminished the absence from the factory of workmen through drink, the waste of their wages on liquor, and the consequent suffering of their families." How could these things be if the drinking of liquor has gone...
...merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound." By advancing in this concluding paragraph practically the same major premise advocated by Mr. Pond, the Council has shielded its main suggestion somewhat from the vigourousness of the attack...