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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomats about what would constitute "default." Attorney General Cummings interpreted the Johnson Act to mean that in the past token payers were not in default, because the President in accepting tokens had said they were not. Secretary Hull made it clear that token payments in the future would not save debtor nations from being technically in default. Questioned by newshawks, the President merely answered that whether a token payment constituted payment or default was a point he would decide on the merits of each case as it arose...
...ailment is such an enlargement of the faculty as will give its members proper leisure for research and at the same time secure proper teaching under the preceptorial system. "But," says the skeptic, "where is the money coming from?" And to that question we have no answer--save that it has generally proved true that if the administration of a university shows the requisite vision and resourcefulness, the money generally comes from somewhere. Just ask A. Lawrence Lowell. The Daily Princetonian...
...Chamber and stilled the small talk in the galleries, Sonator Borah, swerving from a discussion of policy concerning the delegation of tariff powers to the President, today became the embattled defender of the Ship of State and the Constitution. Taking his cue from Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring plea to save the Constitution's sea-going namesake from being ignominiously scuttled, the Senator from Idaho invoked all the sentimental balderdash at his command to keep the leaky old frigate and its battery of muzzle-loaders in the first line of the battle squadron against the iron-clads of despotism...
...Magazine he loved to talk about starting finally came to the point of starting, he let it fizzle out in a gargantuan defeatist joke. Though he loved the girl he might have had for the asking and knew she was headed for disaster, he never lifted a finger to save her. These and other characters stand out from the energetic flow of Author Slesinger's narrative, but what makes the book both entertaining and impressive are its gurgling eddies of talk, its glittering shallows and broken rapids...
...late Sergei Yessenin and Vladimir Maiakovsky (both suicides) ; the conversion of "the mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president of the Russian Authors' League, who was forced to save his skin by rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel to publish anything at all under present conditions. A scornful disbeliever in the Communist theory that Art must be Propaganda, Author Eastman is a Communist first but a literary man all the time...