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Depression psychology has made June the saddest month in the year--completely aside from the fact that it is the middle-aisle month. For this is the time that thousands of sober-minded and clear-eyed American youth march lightly and boldly from out of ivied gates, only to find that a cold world has no room for them. Perhaps this can be a different commencement -- just for a change--for Harvard '39. Maybe the bond houses, closed their fabulous doors when turtle-neck sweaters went out. But, assuming that the next depression holds off a few years at least...
...compromised with convention by getting married in a civil ceremony.) Last fortnight they arrived in Manhattan on their first visit to the U. S. Said Esmond Romilly last week: "We came here to get away from a terrible, deathlike atmosphere of depression and hopelessness. England is one of the saddest places in the world...
...instructor) John Gates from Youngstown, Ohio; Sergeant Gerald Cook, office boy for the pinko Nation; Lieut. Manny Lancer, formerly of the Workers Alliance; Sergeant Thomas Page, a Manhattan Negro (wounded on the Ebro front): an lowan who became Captain Owen Smith; 20-year-old Nurse Rose Waxman of Manhattan. Saddest of the heroes was a lad whose parents met him at the dock, snatched off his purple military beret, hopped up & down on it, indignantly marched him home...
Gallant lost causes leave sad aftermaths, and one of the saddest is the plight of the broken leaders. London last week was the temporary refuge of a Robert E. Lee and a Jefferson Davis of the late Republic of Czechoslovakia. They are Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk, two men who devoted 20 years of their lives to a cause which no longer exists. Like Lee and Davis, they did not know what to do next...
...saddest part of this episode is that these contributions are being used in a desperate effort to defeat a charter which, if adopted, would bring greater security and better working conditions for every employee of the City...