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These difficulties should be remedied by the prompt purchase of more of the texts required. There seems to be no good reason why the shelves of the house libraries should be further stocked with best sellers or ancient tomes of interest only to the occasional antiquarian while fundamental text-books are inadequate in number. Nor does the existence of more complete libraries like Boylston and Fogg furnish any excuse for compelling the inquiring student to wallow through several blocks of New England weather to cover his weekly reading assignments...
...were disappointed. The editors were represented by lawyers. Scolded Justice Waste: "It does not look like due diligence was exercised to determine whether the information on the article was true. I am pestered by telephone calls on all important cases. A word to the Chief Justice would have brought prompt information that no decision had been reached." Put in Associate Justice Preston: "It would appear you were looking for a scoop and were afraid to investigate because you might find out it was incorrect. . . . You don't tell us where you got this information. It looks...
Even Paris agreed that it was a great Hitler speech. Orator Hitler played adroitly on the theme that revolution had been expected to break out in Germany upon the death of Hindenburg and that he had averted this catastrophe by prompt assumption of the President's powers...
...they were embarked on a new crusade, brandishing a new weapon-the boycott. That they were in earnest impressed even hardboiled Variety, which for once put aside its racy style to tell about the "Legion of Decency" in a straightforward article headlined: "CATHOLICS WOULD ENLIST ALL FAITHS-Need for Prompt Action to Avert Drastic Penalties Upon Picture Industry Urged in East-Real Danger...
...Urging prompt passage of a pending legislation authorizing Administrator Ickes to regulate intrastate as well as interstate oil traffic, the President warned: "I am frankly fearful that if the law is not strengthened, illegal production will continue and grow in volume and result in a collapse of the whole structure...