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...Lobby is a non-partisan organization headed by Professor John Dewey which is working for legislation at the National Capital to balance consumption and production by eliminating profit. Mr. Marsh this summer visited the Scandinavian countries, Russia, Poland, Germany, France and England, to see what these governments are doing on the People's Lobby program. During the fall he made a five weeks speaking trip to the Pacific Coast...
...last week's complications could be perceived without the use of a slide rule. The pound suddenly slumped 5¢ to $4.91½?lowest level since last February. Up went the London gold price to a historical high of 142 shillings 4 pence (about $34.95) Down went, the Scandinavian and other currencies which are linked to sterling through the economics of world trade. Down went the yen, so that Japanese exporters would not lose the markets they have lately gained. And when the international debate about the future of sterling grew raucous, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain either lied...
...Strawman August but the liver creatures of Author Hamsun's fancy will most please U. S. readers: the sinister witch Aase, the bibulous druggist and his crony, the hotelkeeper; the postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely...
...been left by general national opinion in a secondary position intellectually as compared with Wisconsin. Is that just one more American Intellectual injustice, or has this matter of foreign population, supposed to work in favor of Iowa, been counted as against it? Wisconsin is much more German, much more Scandinavian, than Iowa--and that seems to confess the German stock stronger than the Yankee. And now Minnesota, with its strong Scandinavian content. That State has already a Norwegian college--an American center of a purely Norwegian culture. No doubt we shall have some Norwegian "fellows" at Harvard...
...which are Edward P. Herring, instructor in Government, and tutor in the House, J. Raymond Walsh, instructor in Economics and a tutor in Leverett House, C. Crane Brinton '19, assistant professor of History and also a tutor in Dunster House, and Frank S. Cawley '10, assistant professor of Scandinavian Languages...