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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast army of people and politicians, still sick and sore with the memory of what their country had gone through, were ready to agree with him. In a time of national enthusiasm for peace and neutrality, any stumpster could cry that the U. S. went to war "to save the skins of its bankers." The opportunity to accuse munitions makers and international bankers of having shoved the U. S. into a foreign war for their own selfish interests was too good to be missed by the U. S. Senate. Perhaps it might even succeed in making the new version...
...American Legion, the son of the late great Speaker of the House knew War at first hand. Before the Committee for settlement was a scandalous question: Should J. Pierpont Morgan be hated as a warmonger second only to Kaiser Wilhelm? Did U. S. blood on the fields of France save his financial skin...
...they were soon boastfully exuberant again when good war news came in from both the North Front and the South. Premature "little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could not get off the ground. Only light Italian ships were able to fly in pursuit of non-existent Ethiopian planes...
...Crimson's criticism seems to be the reflection of the rich man's point of view. Of course Harvard is a rich man's college. The editorial, for instance, gave the President no credit for establishing the Home Owner's Loan Corporation to save impoverished home owners; the CCC for taking thousands of the land's youth off city streets and out of the alums to healthy country air to lead a normal, healthy life and at the same time earn a little money; for the NYA which is aiding 1650 students on our own campus in their quest...
...accusing us of recommending the transformation of the Tutorial System into a "pedagogical nursery" with every tutor a "task-master", then our whole case falls to the ground. For the whole idea was to allow those within the System the greatest possible freedom in their work, and no discipline save self-discipline...