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Cynically last week the Committee's first report (secret and later suppressed) was called in Basle the "Pollyanna Report." With hard-boiled optimism it upheld the French thesis that Germany cannot remain forever unable to pay her debts, that when prosperity returns she should pay what she owes under the Young Plan which must be kept intact. The paradoxically hard-boiled "Pollyanna Report" was drafted by Britain's young delegate, Sir Walter Thomas Layton, 47, no glad-man (extreme right...
...This Silly Optimism." From his riverside Church pulpit in Manhattan, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached: "Individualism in the modern world is insanity. Optimism is a dangerous lie. If our businessmen were only realists, if they ceased this silly optimism, then the disastrous consequences of our present Pollyanna attitude might be averted. . . . We need the voice and spirit of Jeremiah. . . . If the business brains of this country were devoted to social problems rather than the making of money, economic life could readily be rescued from its inhumanity. . . . Unless we adapt our capitalistic society to the needs of the present...
...Since the panic last November conditions have grown steadily worse, despite the Pollyanna statements of the Administration and the misleading reports of its members. . . . However blameless the President may have been for the initial panic, it is most unfortunate that added disappointment should have come from his persistent coloring of real conditions. . . . Securities and commodities are lower than ever and the unemployment situation is steadily becoming worse. . . . The President issued no word of warning of the catastrophe, though after it he was glib in his explanation of the why and where fore...
Mims. Dr. Edward Mims of Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) defended the South's reluctance to embrace "modernism." Said he: "Many people have passed from sentimentalism to sophistication, from rose pink literature to dirty drab, from Pollyanna optimism to the most depressing pessimism, from uplift to iconoclasm, from mediocrity to abnormal eccentricity, from service to rampant individualism and selfishness, from suppressed emotions and inhibitions to unbridled passion and undisciplined thinking, from success as an idol to failure as the chief glory...
...business corporations, collects signatures, likes-to watch athletes. When her famed curls were shortened to a bob last year in Manhattan by Barber Charles Bock, she put them in an envelope and took them home. Some of her pictures: The Poor Little Rich Girl, The Heart of the Hills, Pollyanna, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Tess of the Storm Country, Little Annie Roomy, My Best Girl. Syncopation (Radio-Keith-Orpheum). By this time even rural communities must find the separation, due to a third party's intrigue, of a team-of dancing partners, a story that can he interesting only...