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...than the priests, he ostentatiously and offensively adopted an ascetic manner of life, he openly abandoned every policy that he had heretofore supported; he affirmed immediately that there was a higher order than that which our King, and he as the King's servant, had for so many years striven to establish; and that--God knows why--the two orders were incompatible...
...methods which President Hutchins proposes, however, are both revolutionary and impractical. In his enthusiasm for the cause of high scholarship and uninterrupted research, he bends over backwards to obliterate all that for which American college of the liberal arts have striven. Basing his argument on the doubtful proposition that the future must bring a regiment of standardized junior colleges, President Hutchins advocates an arbitrary line to be drawn between the sophomore and junior years of every college, as if to say "Here is born ambition, ability, and the will to learn". Only exceptional students would be admitted to the universities...
...long line of dirt-farmers and agriculture economists, Secretary Wallace is the second member of his family to hold the office of Secretary of Agriculture. Proximity to the farmers has given him a desire to see that they are fairly treated by the government and this he has striven...
...indicated no 1935 boom in the sales of ships' logs, rigging or hardtack but the gradual upswing of a modern and highly unmaritime industry. Newport industries, like its only big competitor, Hercules Powder Co., sells products distilled from the pitchy roots of Southern pines. Like Hercules, it has striven throughout Depression to diversify these products and find new uses for them. But while Hercules' $3,175,000 profit last year was derived from four other large manufacturing interests (explosives, nitrocellulose, chemical cotton, chemicals for the paper trade), Newport's came entirely from naval stores and their byproducts...
...London next day the U. S., British, French and Italians turned the Conference into a painful and frivolous pretense that naval limitation or disarmament can still be striven for by other Great Powers without Japan. Some talk was heard about new Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's idea of inviting to the Conference both Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia. Any such move was soon postponed, but the Conference did agree that its member states are to tell each other early each year what warboats they are going to build that year. The Conference further agreed that Japanese observers left behind...