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...close of the interview President Kalinin grinned broadly when asked whether President Roosevelt, by insisting that Russia reaffirm the religious rights of foreigners in the Soviet Union, had paved the way for a rapprochement be tween Moscow and the Vatican. "About that," he twinkled, "I do not want to make propaganda." With asperity in Vatican City the Papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano last week declared that Comrade Litvinoff's pledges to President Roosevelt on the freedom of religious practice in U. S. S. R. are not only worthless but "clearly mean ingless...
...away from those basic realities that underlie our Government, the operation of which is responsible for the marvelous growth of this republic and that still must constitute the beacon light to lead us on to greater heights of industry, prosperity and liberty. ... I believe the Republican Party should reaffirm its determination to stand by the Constitution...
...have trounced the New Hampshirites soundly on three occasions and a comparison of scores is bound to have its psychological effect on the team. Harvard this afternoon has the difficult task of playing a game in which there is everything to win and nothing to lose. Victory can only reaffirm the result of the first game while a win by the Indians, desperate from a season of unsweetened defeat and playing on their home ice, have more than an outside chance of turning on their Cambridge rivals with unsuspected fury and destroying the confidence that goes with a consistent record...
...much the committee will and can accomplish is a question. Other committees have sought the true solution and have filed, but each has contributed something, if only to reaffirm the complexity of the problem as it exists today. Some results can be expected from a group of sincere and thinking men, and some relief from the present situation can be hoped for. Their success lies largely with themselves. It they approach with a thesis, but if they begin with an unbiased desire for correction, they should contribute something of value...
...attractiveness and legibility, or between form and content, and Vanity Fair, not wishing to undertake a campaign of education, casts its vote by returning to the use of capital letters in titles, to legibility, and to the cause of content above form. . . . The notes on this page are . . . to reaffirm some old pledges of Vanity Fair and to submit to the final tribunal of its readers the credo of present policies...