Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Qua's ruling may affect the registration of some 30 graduate students who were personally challenged by Councillor Michael J. Sullivan. Although the law prohibits students to vote because they are only temporary residents, Dailey was able to prove he intended to live here and was self-supporting...
...Hull speaks on international politics, as he did yesterday, his remarks tend to fall into a certain set pattern--one characterized by generality and vague idealism, but withal imbued with optimism. This note of optimism is refreshing. However clearly the facts may point to continued economic nationalism, however loudly self-designated "realists" may proclaim the inevitability of war, there remains in every rational person the hope that civilization may yet be constrained from committing suicide; and it is encouraging to hear a man in public office expressing that hope...
Secretary Hull is not blind to the forces which would destroy the effect of his trade agreements. He realizes perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...
...involved in world affairs as he claimed? Last week a two-volume edition of his letters answered these questions and many more. Covering the period from 1889 to his death in 1936, they give a better characterization of Steffens than he was able to evoke in all his perplexed self-probing...
...autobiography Steffens pictured his development as a logical process, which had the effect of making him seem egotistical, self-assured, didactic. His letters show him to have been emotional, genial, affectionate, often bewildered, but with a lively awareness of his own contradictions. In one of his periodic hunts for seclusion, he wrote: "I am alone as I wished, and ... I can hardly stand...