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...column in the Hearstpapers one day last week. B. (for Bertie) C. (for Charles) Forbes, breezy little Scots business pundit, wrote...
...increased last week from ten to 25, including cutlery-famed Sheffield. Supposing Labor to be definitely resurgent-that is, supposing Great Britain to have a Labor Government within the next two years-who would step into the shoes of un-laborite James Ramsay MacDonald? Recently that brilliant British Press Pundit Henry Wickham Steed dismissed as inconsequential all the Labor leaders "because none of them seems to have the stuff of leadership in him."* But inside the Party a brisk battle to capture Labor's executive control from paunchy, do-nothing "Uncle Arthur" Henderson and doddering "Old George" Lansbury...
...Pundit Steed, observing that "Ramsay MacDonald . . . may be unaware how subtly and swiftly public trust in him has ebbed during the past twelvemonth" and that "Stanley Baldwin's . . . passion for self-effacement and appearance of political indolence estrange and dishearten the younger conservatives," concluded: "At no time in the past 40 years have the British people been so leaderless as they are today...
...banded seven sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher education for women, which he called a "rather decent overcoming of a primitive feeling, and we know that new liberties are fragile and must be vigilantly defended...
...York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an editorial-of-the-week called "The Pace of Things." "In our domestic affairs,'' said he, "we have indulged heavily in calendar-worship. In Washington, for example, the administration of the NRA has been beset by a kind of breathless anxiety that certain definite results had to be achieved on a particular day. There had to be x million men at work by Labor Day. There had to be x million more by the New Year. . . . Even the Dictatorships, where everything is done so lickety-split. have allowed themselves...