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Dorothy Thompson was never married to a U. S. President, but her writings receive almost as wide attention throughout the land as do those of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Miss Thompson's husband, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, in his most famed book, Main Street, reached fewer U. S. voters than Miss Thompson reaches daily in her syndicated column On The Record (audience: 7,000,000). Last week Dorothy Thompson picked up a phrase by Herbert Hoover-"Ideas cannot be cured with battleships"-and retorted: "Ideas can certainly be spread and suppressed by the sword...
...Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot announced that: 1) doctors are being catalogued and assigned to wartime service posts throughout the country; 2) plans for building additional hospitals are being drafted and arrangements made to provide 200,000 hospital beds for the first day of bombing, 100.000 later...
TIME'S Index of Business Conditions, reversing the temporary downtrend shown throughout January, rose 1.6 points last week-from 97.6 to 99.2. Chief cause of the rise was an increase in public spending everywhere except in the ten biggest cities. Business loans continued to decline, reflecting industry's indisposition to go in debt for inventories...
...Yorkers really deserved to win Saturday night's game. They were playing a very smart brand of hockey throughout, and they capitalized on every break in heads-up fashion, Hodder's charges, on the other hand, were somewhat off form...
...democratic nature, is the logical and most efficient body for the administration of Freshman activities; and that the elections should therefore be discarded. In ignoring this problem, the Council made a particularly serious mistake, for the leaders which emerge in the Freshman year regularly remain leaders throughout their four years because of democratic inertia, and in so far as they are illogically chosen the problem remains unsolved at its root. On the whole, however, the report is constructive, and its proposals should certainly go far toward improving Harvard politics...