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...editorial entitled "Education and Pate-Stuffing," the Harvard CRIMSON recently accused several of the more progressive colleges of continuing, in their entrance requirements, "to encourage superficiality." This encouragement, it was claimed, is evidenced by the conformity with the requirements of the College Entrance Examination Board, a conformity which leads even the best of the preparatory schools to go in for patestuffing. "Instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes...
...budget. For years the San Francisco Opera ran no deficit. Last season there was one of some $30,000. Merola often undertakes a performance with next to no rehearsals; Hertz demands many. But as the solid old German stood in the pit last week, sweat gleaming from his bald pate, his beard pointing eagerly toward the stage. San Franciscans forgot all about dollars and deficits in the fine sweep of his orchestral performance...
Before the convention was 24 hours old these three had set the side-room bar of the banner-decked Broadway Auditorium buzzing. The bald dome of the President's best Democrat, the old brown derby of his worst Democrat, and the monk-fringed pate of their mutual friend had come together, nodding close in amiable conference. That night in Boss Farley's headquarters at the Hotel Statler Al Smith chewed his cigar from 9 to 1 o'clock while New Deal orders were given. Next day, for the first time in many a month, the three...
Last week Boss Farley heard how Upton Sinclair, in a victory no less complete, had become the Democratic nominee for Governor of California. The Postmaster General rubbed his bald pate and finally conceded: "If Sinclair is the choice of the Party, there's nothing else we can do but congratulate him. The Party has never failed to support its nominee...
...believe you will agree that TIME erred in hurling the nasty epithet "scabs" at these boys, American citizens from American farms, especially as they were "eager to earn an honest penny" rather than live on charity, more especially as they, ''at the risk of a broken pate," watered and fed these suffering cattle and drove them under "protection from the blazing sun," and most especially since less than 10% of our citizens belong to any A. F. of L. union, the 90% being outcasts, '"scabs" in the eyes of these union leaders, the same as the men who undertook...