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...House, is roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, once famed for insistently proposing at Geneva total disarmament of all nations, now grown more practical. With his English wife Ivy he lives not in the Kremlin, as do most of Stalin's intimates, but at a distance, suggestive of the "taint" felt by Communists to adhere to anyone forced to deal directly and continuously with Capitalist governments...
...Golden Harvest," this week's feature at the Metropolitan, is a mild bit of adventure apparently inspired by the time-honored farm problem. The producers give taint intimations of attempting an epic but, being unable to solve the problem of surplus wheat any better than a Farm Beard, they content themselves with merigages and government aid for the farmers...
...quiet way, with House bells; like all these steps, it is a link in the long chain destined to bind the House tradition. Antedated by the Kirkland Alumni Bulletin, it lacks the mild appeal of novelty; but further than this, like all such publications, it has a vague taint, reminiscent of boy's club circulars, and the bulletins of Ladies Aid Societies, which is likely to condemn it in the eyes of many...
...give a crown of complete fatuity to all that has been said and done about limiting the freedom of the college press, from the University of Northwestern comes the report of a series of restrictions by which the morality of the editor will be strictly guarded from any taint. In the new order of sweetness and light, any reference to birth control is taboo; Miss Margaret Sanger is not to be named in print; Al Capone and his boy friends must not be mentioned; no stories may be printed reflecting on the morality of coeds at Northwestern or any other...
Those who expected to see Mr. Roosevelt rise to the occasion and deliver proof of his freedom from the taint of demagogy will be sadly enlghtened by this, the latest evidence of the justice of that charge. The revealing experience of a long presidential campaign has not dealt kindly with the squire of Hyde Park. The efficient executive who was once regarded as a progressive, strong official has shown himself, on this occasion at least, a man who appeals to partisan passions by platitudes, by stirring quotations,-in short, a demagogue. If Mr. Roosevelt hopes ever to grace the White...