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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since his "quarantine the aggressor nations" speech at Chicago in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt has openly led the party which believes not only that the totalitarian dictators deny the democratic U. S. way of life but that they threaten it, that something must be done to curb them. Doing something about things that look wrong to him is a prime characteristic of Franklin Roosevelt and, fortified by the Warm Springs spirit, the tougher the going gets the better he likes...
Most arresting was her extemporaneous speech challenging the entire U. S. economic system (TIME, March 6). Excerpt: "I believe in the Social Security Act . . . in the National Youth Administration, never as a fundamental answer. . . . These are stopgaps. We bought ourselves time to think. . . . There is no use kidding ourselves. We have got to face this problem. . . . This goes down to the roots of whether civilization goes on or civilization dies...
...Prosser's speech was as frank and complete a statement of the vocational view of education as could be found, but a gloomy picture of the future of democracy is painted by his sturdy, scientific facing of the facts. His realism frankly admits that the mass of humanity cannot be decorated much, and in meeting the problem of unemployable youth he would at least make them skillful drones during the incubation period. "Now, and not at some indefinite time to come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated...
...mark of 15 kisses in 15 tries, then the apprehension of the alumni, now gathered in New Orleans, will have to be considered. There will certainly be some trying moments for President Conant this weekend if a deputation of worried grads buttonholes him in the middle of a speech on tutorial problems and someone whispers anxiously, "Say, Jimmy, how're our chances for copping the new smooching record...
...series of round-table discussions will be held Saturday afternoon, parts of which, as well as Dearborn's speech, will probably be broadcast over WEEI. Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology and chairman of the department, will lead a discussion on "Propaganda in the Schools...