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...peace. Such willful brags, however well they may be meant, seldom serve the professed purpose for which they are made. Historically, they are a reflection of the "big stick" epigram of Theodore Roosevelt, the most popular, and probably the most unfortunate of his phrases. In the present circumstances, the smug assumption of moral superiority, even if valid, can only alienate further a people who already feel cause for resentment toward the American attitude. The United States would go closer toward a real understanding with Japan by a frank examination of conscience in regard to its own actions, especially the stupid...
...foreign loans is a sordid tale, grotesque and tragic. ... In the investigation there were disclosed certain ugly facts which enabled us to understand and resent what has been done to the investing American public ... a dazed people whose pockets have been picked. . . . The utterly unrestrained duping of investors, the smug complacency of the great financial prestidigitators are all shown. . . . The sale of foreign securities was not only unrestrained by our Government but the peculiar system adopted by the State Department enabled international bankers to foster sales and convey the impression that their securities were satisfactory to our Government...
...money madness of our people, the greed and even worse of international bankers and the smug complacency and supine indifference of Government have contributed to the unhappy results...
...keen attacks on modern college foibles, directs a satirical barrage against the "Modern Intellectual." He presents as a composite of certain characteristics in colleges today a fictitious professor in a fictitious western university, both devoid of tradition and culture, and both supremely materialistic in outlook. Easterners will experience a smug satisfaction in this confirmation of their oft-voiced contempt for western materialism, but a more critical examination will reveal a disconcerted irony in Mr. Tunis's glowing praise for the dusty culture of the East...
...Second Rhapsody seemed tempered and in degree de-natured by reflection and manipulation. It sounded over-often from the study-table and the piano-rack." Said Critic Hale: "The music has decided individuality, which, it is to be hoped. Mr. Gershwin will preserve, and not be frightened into the smug respectability approved by professors of music and easily shocked conservative hearers...