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These words, I realize, can readily be twisted into a charge that an attempt is being made to restrict, restrain, crib cabin and confine the legislative body in the interest of the executive. I pause therefore to say with all possible emphasis that this is a suggestion for broadening and strengthening the powers of the legislative body, and making it an even more important factor in national organization. Legislative bodies are not strong in detail but in general principle; they are most competent not in the minutiae of government but in the determination of the general directives of government action...
...Congress declared in principle that draftees and one-year volunteers can vote in person or by absentee ballot. But the States determine who can vote; Congress actually has nothing to say about it. Twenty-nine States forbid soldiers on active duty to vote while 19 others* restrict but do not outlaw balloting by soldiers...
...strategic material to the U. S., is life and death to Bolivia, constitutes 70% of her exports. Yet the Bolivian mines, thanks to depression and years of mining by their absentee landlord, are run down. Controlling more than half the production, Patino has also managed to restrict the rest. Not for ten years has Bolivia produced the full quota set for her by the British-controlled cartel. Last year Bolivia mined 27,000 tons of ore. To reach an estimated potential of 50,000 tons, the Bolivian mines need back maintenance, new machinery, more labor...
...this campaign will be little playlet parables against the New Deal. No more will Romeo tell Juliet that he cannot marry her because the WPA has bounced him for being a Republican. Agreeing that such tricks are unfair and unseemly, the National Association of Broadcasters last week voted to restrict political broadcasts to speeches, interviews, bona fide rallies...
...Last fortnight, Harvard's Dean A. Chester Hanford socked them in the solar plexus. Any student who attended a commercial tutoring school, he announced, would be "liable to disciplinary action." Harold A. Wolff, proprietor of the biggest school, promptly announced that his school would give up tutoring, would restrict itself to "educational counseling" of students "who have done the work but still do not grasp the material." As Parker-Cramer kept mum, a Crimson photographer crashed one of its classrooms, took a picture of seven students cramming, dashed out with a tutor in hot pursuit. The Crimson printed...