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...presided again last June at Chicago. After the oil investigation had made him a headliner, Washington's Daisy Harriman took him in hand, trimmed his scraggly mustache, made a society lion out of him. But no amount of social attention could diminish his capacity for public indignation or soften the glare of righteousness in his hard blue eyes. As an Attorney General, he is rated faintly radical because he sponsored the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the "Power Trust...
Answering the charge that the new Harkness Plan at Exeter was tending to "soften boys" through its emphasis on the individual, Headmaster Lewis Perry yesterday replied that "contrary to the generally expressed opinion that the classes resemble tutoring schools where the instructor does all the work, the present method of teaching at Exeter is much more difficult for the boys and certainly harder for the teachers." In reading his statement, interested observers of the New Hampshire school will feel reassured that the worst possible criticism of the step has been refuted...
...which has been pouring out of Hollywood studies--including Universal--for so many years. If anything could puncture the movies, "Once In A Lifetime" might be calculated to do it. But the assumption is probably naive, for in filming this uproarious burlesque, the movie magnates have not failed to soften the more biting scenes, and rub the edges smooth. "Once in A Lifetime" is still well-worth seeing, however, as one of the best theatrical satires of recent years...
...Debated a bill by Nebraska's Norris to curb Federal injunctions in labor disputes and outlaw "yellow dog" contracts;? rejected all amendments to soften its stringent provisions...
Dartmoor itself does not yield the influences which are calculated to soften and better mankind. In the immediate vicinity there is no house, no civilization apparent, to make the convicts remember that they are human. There is a wierd quiet that hangs over the place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...