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...answers were brought forward by the University president to the question, "Why should the citizens of a relatively wealthy state be taxed to help the edu- cation in poorer states?" He said that 1) the nation's youth are "future citizens of the entire country" and (2) the people of the U. S. are mobile so that the school child of a poor area is the potential inhabitant of a wealthy city...
...editor would wonder why the Commission failed to name names, except in obvious or innocuous cases of the misuse of freedom. He would note many a contradiction (e.g., in its preoccupation with the evils of monopoly, the Commission overlooked such cities as Boston, where eight competing papers give poorer fare than Louisville, whose Courier-Journal and Times are a monopoly...
Roebuck and Co. catalogue, printed on a poorer-than-usual quality of paper, was being eagerly scanned by thousands who not so long ago had trooped to department-store perfume counters in their tin hats...
Living conditions in poorer sections of Boston are constantly deteriorating and students must wake up to the fact, according to Carle C. Zimmerman associate professor of Sociology, Robert F. Bales, instructor in Sociology, and John M. Kingman '14, headworker of Lincoln and Hale settlement houses, speakers at a PBH sponsored forum in Adams Upper Common Room last night...
...must know perfectly well that there is absolutely nothing in the U.S.A. to inspire respect. Some people and some poorer countries may envy the mighty U.S.A. dollar and the American standard of living. Others may admire the manufacturing capacity and all the wonderful technical, scientific, industrial, etc. discoveries and advances which have come from your country . . . . But no one in the world respects anything of your country, in the full and real sense of the word like one does an Einstein, British Justice, Sweden, Toscanini, Switzerland, the dignity and patriotism of the Germans hung in Nuörnberg...