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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor." [Applause] Neutrality. Because U. S. peace lovers have, within the past year, whipped up the question of U. S. neutrality in a dark and dangerous world to the first legislative rank (see p. 11), all ears pricked up in solemn attention when the President came to this ticklish problem. Said he: "First, we decline to encourage the prosecution of war by permitting belligerents to obtain arms, ammunition or implements of war from the United States; second, we seek to discourage the use by belligerent nations of any and all American products calculated to facilitate the prosecution...
...home owners: '. . . We have no further concern with how you keep your home. . . '? Shall we say to the several millions of unemployed: '. . . We will turn you back to the charity of your communities. . . '? Shall we say to the needy: 'Your problem is a local one. . . '? Shall we say to the children who have worked all day: 'Child labor is a local issue. . . '? Shall we say to the laborer: '. . . If your employer will not even meet with you to discuss your problems and his, that is none of our affair'? "Members...
...problem of the class of citizens attending the prep schools is the problem of the United States itself. A victim of a grotesque system of government cannot by any manner of reasoning be named as its cause. America must realize, as England has long done, that members of the socially privileged classes have as much to offer the government as any other group of the population. Provincialism and gas-house polities have left their sears on this country, and until such failings are overcome, it is both futile and unfair to compare this country's schools with Eton and Harrow...
...Visitatorial Jurisdiction over Corporations in Equity" is the subject of Dean Pound's article. Harris Berlack '20, New York lawyer, has written on the very acute problem of "Federal Incorporation and Security Regulation...
...other side takes the attitude that such redistribution of wealth is not the Government's business, not intrinsically, but because private capitalism can handle the old age problem far more efficiently, more intelligently, more democratically, and more honestly. At present the aged are not, as a general rule, starving to death. They are supported by charity, in a small number of cases, by past thrift, in a larger number of cases, and by relations, in the majority of cases...