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...those more scrupulous who do not, and who lose a great part of that custom they might have obtained on merit, were all other considerations equal. Is it then right that they should be thus penalized for adhering to the letter of the law, while their less fastidious rivals reap their ill-gotten gains? Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are not speedily filled in Harvard Square...
Next to Josef Stalin the most hotly publicized hero in all Soviet Russia is stocky, thick-mustached Lazare Moiseyevich Kaganovich, a smart, ruthless Jew who is credited with leading and driving the Russian peasantry to sow and reap their bumper harvest (TIME...
...same old acquisitive instinct which from time immemorial has made the individual seek to plant as much and reap as much as he can has apparently thwarted the plan which for several months has been in effect in American agriculture...
Senator Thomas and the monetary diehards are having it back and forth with a fine gusto about whether the Treasury shall reap the four billion or so of reward if the dollar is devalued. The best argument that the outraged sound money men seem able to muster is the moral one that no government should appropriate something for nothing in this cavalier fashion. Whereas Senator Thomas and the rest fight for devaluation and confiscation of the gold profit as if the four billion dollars were essential to the financing of the recovery program...
...censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...