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...years been exploited, oppressed and denied the exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. . . . They have been little more than industrial serfs. . . . Thirteen million Americans are now unemployed. Their numbers are steadily increasing, as the nation drifts with terrifying and deadly sureness to the never, never realm of financial bankruptcy, economic collapse and human tragedy. This is appallingly true, despite the fact that Government has dipped into the public purse to make possible the granting of huge subsidies to industry, agriculture, banking and finance. . . . Our national internal economy has attained the amazing condition where it appears that...
...Philosophy A last week the ethereal realm of Philosophy was suddenly brought to earth by a demand of the lecturer that "Somebody wake up that man in the back row!" There was a good deal of shuffling around in seats then, so much, in fact, that not many could hear the reply from the dozer's neighbor: "You wake him up. You put him to sleep...
...though some of the undergraduate authors were overpowered by their own sense of scientific responsibility: their method is cautiously conservative, their style weighted by terminology. Perhaps there is stage fright behind such mimicry. Whatever the cause, its effects are not conducive to first-rate journalism. Here is a wide realm for editorial guidance...
...Boston at the Colonial Theatre, is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining motion picture. Starring the delectable Alice Faye, it is an interesting portrayal of Chicago in the seventies, and the climax--the great fire of 1871--is a worthy addition to the recent series of Hollywood excursions into the realm of spectacular catastrophe...
...only impersonal, but also inhuman; he is not even concerned, to all appearances with humanity. The familiar analogy between communism and religion is introduced, but a contradiction in the stand of the extreme radical is posited; he seeks something beyond material things while denying the existence of any such realm of being...