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...last week that Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy had been given two year "concluding reappointments" as Instructors in Economics, the familiar outcry of academic intolerance of advanced views and interference with academic liberty was bound to arise. Considering their popularity, and ability some outcry is not surprising but the tumult and shouting, and all the familiar paraphernalia of petitions, protest meetings, and probing committees designed to make them martyrs can only work intense hardship...
...Today, however, those who placed their confidence in us are reassured. For the tumult and the shouting have broken forth anew-and from substantially the same elements of opposition. This new roar is the best evidence in the world that we have begun to keep our promises, that we have begun to move against conditions under which one-third of the nation is still ill-nourished, ill-clad, ill-housed...
United's crash was the last of a series in recent weeks which has the whole U. S. aviation world in a tumult. Until a month ago there had been only four major crashes of scheduled U. S. airliners in 1936. Then, on Dec. 15. a Western Air Express Boeing vanished in Utah with seven aboard. On Dec. 18 a Northwest Air Lines Lockheed vanished with two pilots, but no passengers, aboard. Last week the Boeing was still lost, but the Lockheed had been found, buried in the snow near Kellogg, Idaho, with both men dead...
...Vincent Sheean (Personal History), Walter Duranty (I Write As I Please), John Gunther (Inside Europe), George Slocombe (Tumult and the Shouting), Negley Parson (Way of a Transgressor), Miles Vaughn (Covering the Far East...
...Tribune sage's articles remain when they are issued, frozen inside book-covers. You turn the pages from the panic mood of January, 1933, when Mr. Lipmann joined his well-modulated call to the rest of those who demanded swift executive action; through the decisive March days, through the tumult round banks and public works and beer, through the birth of the blue eagle. Here is Mr. Lippman praising the emergency legislation in March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue eagle and the boycott" forcing...