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From his new restaurant, in which the current pastime for reckless Manhattan drunks is urging the waiter to ask the proprietor to throw them out, Jack Dempsey last week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross...
This tendency in both houses of Congress to use their new-realized power against the President, not in attacking his program directly, but in going his generosity one better, is very serious. It proves that in a democratic country a reckless promise or program to stir up the people cannot be controlled. Mussolini appeals to nationalism and the war like spirit, yet can keep his country behind him for peace; Hitler, after winning support through an appeal to racial prejudice, claims now that he can keep it in check; but Roosevelt, in a still free country, carries out a large...
...series of radio addresses begun last week Conservative Bennett called for "radical reform." "There must be an end," he declared, "to the reckless exploitation of human resources and the trafficking in the health and the happiness of Canadian citizens. There must be an end to the idea that a workman should be held to his labors throughout the daylight hours." Since Mr. Bennett is even richer than Mr. Roosevelt and extremely close to Canada's great Capitalists, the rest of his speech might be said to parallel exactly what has been heard from the White House...
...Pittsburgh last week during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting (see p. 50) Dr. Hooton delivered a tart ultimatum : "What we must avoid is a progressive deterioration of mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...
Surface cars will be eliminated between Harvard Square and North Cambridge, and the road will be cleared of the numerous traffic islands. In the past, reckless motorists have damaged 117 of these traffic islands, often injuring themselves. The abolition of these islands will be one considerable advantage of the proposed change...