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From the romantic era of the "Constitution" down to the present days, American naval construction has been rarely challenged by critical public opinion. Whatever opposition has threatened to thwart the Congressional program for more ships, the yellow press has attempted to rouse the passions of the public by pointing to the threat of Japanese supremacy on the Pacific, or the superiority of the British armaments. "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute" has generally been the public response to such propaganda and the Admirals have pushed their ambitious plans through a too-willing Congress. Today, with the United States...
...course of the romance was struck when Mrs. Stull heard that marriages in Manhattan required three days' notice. Miserably she fretted. "These laws! What is even a love expert like me going to do against such man-made barriers? Love is beautiful. Love is spontaneous. Why must man thwart it?" Not long to be thwarted was Mrs. Stull herself, who took advantage of the hitch to explain her mission: "I am the love fixer. I make men and women happy. My theory is that every Jill has her Jack." By way of proving her theory she has brought...
There are many features in the present advisorial regime which thwart its efficacy and limit the scope of its beneficial activity. Chosen indiscriminately from the Faculty, changed at frequent intervals, receiving no extra remuneration or alleviation of University duties for their advisorial work, the majority of the advisors have neither the qualifications nor the interest which are essential if there is to be effective guidance. Not only are too many Freshmen assigned to the same man, but there is no attempt to assign the newcomers interested in some particular subject to an advisor who is connected with that field...
Staggered by the losses which American foreign trade has suffered during his administration, President Roosevelt in a message to the National Foreign Trade Convention, announced his sincere intention to seek unified action in breaking down the artificial tariff barriers which now thwart the healthy exchange of commodities. Any successful rehabilitation of American commerce must consider the South American market, a rich market long closed to American industry by the enterprize of German and British merchants and the stupidity of Washington diplomacy...
Deep down in his heart many a pious U. S. farmer firmly believes that the great Drought of 1934 was the work of God, angry at Tugwellian efforts to thwart His bounty. Yet the same God has so far failed to register His displeasure with another program for the willful destruction of natural wealth which, for sheer grandeur in scope and execution, dwarfs anything ever attempted in the U. S. or elsewhere. In three years Brazil's Departamento Nacional do Café has fired, made into fuel briquets or dumped into the deep blue sea 31,500,000 bags...