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...tape that binds the Freshmen to the Union. From the clerical standpoint they are free to dine in the Houses; there is the authorities' word for it. They need only sign slips in the Union some time in advance and then present them in the Houses at the proper hour, for all the dining halls are under the same management...
...Steel held its third-quarter loss to $1,305,000 against nearly $10,000,000 in the corresponding 1934 period. It has started a $140,000,000 plant improvement campaign, but an improvement in railroad and heavy structural steels would be more valuable from the standpoint of immediate profits...
...than the fitting amount of contributions from their pens are included. The editors, both of the prose volume and its poetry companion, have done their work with great skill. Splendidly printed and bound in the Oxford blue and gold, the collections are not only eminently useful from a scholarly standpoint but valuable in their well-presented opportunities for arm-chair enjoyment...
...seems transparently obvious that "trust-busting" is not of such pressing importance as issues suggested by colonel Roosevelt's reply. The defict, taxation, Bureaucracy, unemployment--to name only a few--loom larger on the political horizon. Senator Borah did a public service when he attacked the NRA from the standpoint of free competition. But by helping to clip the eagle's wings, he destroyed in large part the value of his present thesis...
...neutrality than to enable the United States to pay lip service to peace while reaping profits from commerce with the belligerents. As it becomes increasingly clear that Europe is moving toward war the truth must be recognized that the embargo cannot go too far. Even if the moral standpoint can be disregarded, the practical one cannot. The embargo on armaments is a good beginning, nothing more. To make neutrality a fact as well as a word all commerce with a nation at war, whether in commodities, money, or food must be quickly and vigorously stopped...