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...Venerable, profound Philosopher John Dewey began a discussion of Education and Social Reconstruction with a quotation from Amos 'n' Andy. Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild thwacked the New Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific...
...little, thus gaining respite in which to organize and unify China's factions in the vast territory which is left. With passionate invective, firing his points explosively in Chinese like cannon balls, Tsai accused Chiang of a series of machinations to destroy the 19th Route Army as the spearhead of Chinese resistance to Japan...
...action, to turn the mere potentialities of the Recovery Act . . . into actualities. . . . The cotton textile industry has thus taken its courage in its hands. It has blocked out a plan of operations on its sector of the industrial front and today, putting that plan into effect, advances as the spearhead of the attack. . . ." Such was the stirring announcement with which the Industry plunged into NRA 13 months...
Last week the spearhead was quivering, its nose buried in a labor dispute, but it had not reached there at a single flight. Long had the cotton textile industry desired better things. In 1926 it obtained one of those better things, a Cotton-Textile Institute. As secretary for its Institute it got a bright, handsome young son of one of Nashville's leading department store owners. His name was George Arthur Sloan and, as Secretary of the Copper & Brass Research Association, he had learned the art of running trade associations. He plunged into the job of finding new uses...
Throughout the week Rabbi Wise and his Conference put on a good show of representing the "forgotten Jew," the petty Jewish tradesman who fills his shop window with anti-Hitler slogans. In a cablegram to the Conference last week Spearhead Samuel Untermyer of the anti-Nazi boycott begged Rabbi Wise not to give the impression that the boycott is primarily Jewish. "Few influential Jews are supporting us," declared Boycotter Untermyer. "No Jewish banker is a member of any boycott committee or has openly dared to support or contribute to the movement because of fear of German reprisals or because...