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...prime tenet in President Hoover's international credo is, as all the world now knows, limitation, of armaments. He has hammered relentlessly away at the thesis that Armies now overburden the world, that the quickest way out of the Depression is to reduce war forces and the taxes which support them. Though the U. S. has no sizeable army to cut (138,000 officers & men), the President consented to join the Geneva Conference in the earnest hope that the U. S. could somehow help other great powers agree to limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress...
...contains many arguments that are valid. But the author is writing too frequently from the bias of his profession. He hopes to inculcate a thorough knowledge of English Grammar in a boy which in itself is a laudable ideal, at the expense of foreign languages. In defense of this tenet the lawyer cites the elementary language courses at all universities which are more repetitions of a secondary preparation. The time spent on these subjects would be better applied to the Mother tongue in view of the collegiate regurgitation. What Mr. Morawetz is suggesting is tantamount to a stagnation of American...
...Prime tenet of Sir Oswald's small but diligent New Party is opposition to the Labor Government's handling of the unemployment situation. Almost as soon as he found a seat he made a barking speech against Scot MacDonald's bill for amending the unemployment insurance laws, his first since he resigned from the Labor Party (TIME, March 9). Presently he was joined by the other three members of his Party in the House: his beauteous wife Lady Cynthia, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey and William Edward David Allen...
...busiest of U. S. feminists is Dr. Woolley.* To Mt. Holyoke girls her principles (uttered firmly as she stands erect and impressive in academic gown at morning chapel) are well known. Mt. Holyokers disrespectfully pronounce them "Poise, Poipose and Poiserverance." And they know that a prime tenet of Dr. Woolley's philosophy of Feminism is this: no lady drinks intoxicants. Therefore, few of her students have ever been explicitly dropped for tippling. Before female smoking became commonplace the college had no official rule against it-it was inconceivable that a lady should smoke...
...speak for farmers. Mr. Thompson hustled back to Illinois, returned to Washington and the committee 48 hours later with a petition in which some 67,000 husbandmen authorized him to represent their views. As a representative of organized agriculture he was appointed to the Farm Board. His prime tenet: Relieve farmers and Depression will fade away...