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Actually, only Senator Clark made any noticeable effort to stir up scandal. Committee Counsel Raushenbush, far from being a bitter prosecutor like Ferdinand Pecora, was obviously making no effort to send his witnesses to jail, had no belief that the men before him were villains, aimed at no more than to show that war trade and war finance are a danger to peace. Chairman Nye, too, was content with building up a ponderous record which might be used to prove that: 1) In time of foreign war the U. S. should not trade with or finance belligerents; 2) There should...
This short of huge vote-getting subsidy is much more dangerous than straight, under-cover bribery. When Rhode Island votes were bought and sold at $1 a head, Lincoln Stiffens could stir the most tremendous and universal indignation by "exposing" the fact. But now the politician has a perfect weapon; he deals with larger sums of money, and it not only does not break the law, it is the law. Any accusation that a President has been buying votes of Youth, Age, and Farmers, pumped huge sums into Kentucky and Maine just before elections, meets only with the most tremendous...
Peter B. Olney '37, who captained the Freshmen in his first year, succeeded in snatching the 155-pound bout from Richard F. Baum '37. Undefeated in his Freshman year, Baum will stir things up in a special match tomorrow night...
...prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more than 30 or 60 days as punishment for rule infractions. Furthermore, because of the very indefiniteness of his imprisonment, he realizes, if he has a modicum of intelligence, that he is the fellow most likely to become "stir-simple," a malignant disease of the mind brought by resignation to the monotony of institutionalization. Now, time, considered abstractly, is nothing. Man is the only animal who seems to be cognizant of it, and even then only finds it a means of measuring the lapse between the incidents which occur...
...mile up a spur of Pine Mountain, had the privilege of catching a glimpse through the trees of a little colonial house 100 yards down the slope. The fact that the little house is ordinarily the home of Chief Surgeon Michael ("Mike") Hoke of Warm Springs Foundation did not stir the tourists in the least. They were there because Dr. Hoke had moved out temporarily and turned his home over to its owner, Franklin Roosevelt, to use as the Little White House...