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...bars to the men who prefer to take only a few meals in the dining halls. An equitable breakfast rate would be a long step forward. Some such consideration is needed to make the houses financially attractive to those who eat outside, and a concession of this sort might pave the way for a successful solution of the problem within the cross-section ideal...
Last week when Secretary Morgenthau announced that he would review the New Deal's monetary policy by radio, financial papers worked themselves up into a lather of anticipation: he was speaking to pave the way for more dollar devaluation, for remonetization of silver, he would make "an important announcement...
...Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently last week's uprising was chiefly calculated as a demonstration against the May 14 Constitution plebiscite. Sakdalistas believed that if that vote were favorable, the result would pave the way to Boss Quezon's election as President of the Philippine Commonwealth this autumn, keep his faction in power during the next ten years of Commonwealth status...
...past, the Democratic party has ridden into power on a wave of popular sentiment, and then proceeded to cut its own throat, either through usurpation of its newly-found prestige, or through measures which have alienated large sections of the country to such an extent as to pave the way for a Republican victory in the next elections. Because the Wilson administration misgauged the nation's state of mind, and overstepped its bounds, it was summarily defeated in 1920. On the major issues of controversy, therefore, Roosevelt and his cohorts will do well to keep a sensitive...
...none of the overt acts charged, to let Septuagenarian Insull take full responsibility. BUT the defense was also out to show that the acts were honest, if mistaken; to build up a mass of extenuating circumstances to take the curse off any purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment when Depression...